Quotes About Sickness

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

Wealth is all misery and sickness to the brain, try not to put yourself deep in it, it shall erase your humanity feelings.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Philosophy can make people sick.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Hopefully our great movement powered by everyday citizens will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media.