Quotes About Sickness

Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

The question that stands in the foreground is not 'Do we need this technology?' No one denies the great chances and the great opportunities that we have in the fight against poverty, the handling of climate issues, the fight against sickness.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Kondrashev was sick with apprehension in a way, as he put it, "that only a case officer or a parent could understand." What

When you are unwell, you must cough, sneeze, and ache prayer.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

I am not a doctor,' I replied, 'I only help those who come to me in desperation. When a man is brought to me naked I do not know his race or allegiance. I will treat the sick, and if you do not allow me to do so, then I will treat no one.

the hot sickness causing him to see people

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

I am just one of the people who is sick of the social order, sick of the establishment, sick to my soul of it all. To me, America's society is nothing but a cancer, and it must be exposed before it can be cured. I am not the doctor to cure it. All I can do is expose the sickness.

He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they'd become sick, because by seeking his help, somehow they became his.

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

I'm sick!" he bellowed, his voice cracking like a frozen lake underfoot.

America, burning. Cornfields on fire. Sickness in the streets. The people poisoned by their own food and by each other. Red parachutes in the sky: invasion. Dead people in the streets: plague. The stars-and-stripes cut to ribbons and burned for warmth as a long winter sinks its teeth in and never lets go.

Maybe healthy communities thrive, and sick ones become cults.