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Quotes About Sickness

Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more," he said. "Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognised visitor will flee!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Now, I had lived in New York for many, many years; and no one had ever yet rung my doorbell to warn me against the emotional sickness of worry—an illness that, during the same time period, had caused ten thousand times more damage than smallpox.
~ Dale Carnegie
Then I saw a wan face Not pinned by human sorrows, but bright blanched By an immortal sickness which kills not; It works a constant change, which happy death Can put no end to; deathwards progressing To no death was that visage; it had passed The lily and the snow; and beyond these
~ Dan Simmons
My bed wasn't feeling well this morning, so I had to stay home to take care of it.
~ Anonymous
It's been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn't learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there's a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired.
~ William Hurt
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
~ Felix Frankfurter
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
~ Dinah Sheridan
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
~ Gautama Buddha
In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.
~ Virgil
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
~ Phil McGraw
Law merely indicated the sickness
~ grace brought about the cure.
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
~ Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital
Complaint They call me and I go. It is a frozen road past midnight, a dust of snow caught in the rigid wheeltracks. The door opens. I smile, enter and shake off the cold. Here is a great woman on her side in the bed. She is sick, perhaps vomiting, perhaps laboring to give birth to a tenth child. Joy! Joy! Night is a room darkened for lovers, through the jalousies the sun has sent one golden needle! I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
~ William Carlos Williams
I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. —H. G. WELLS
~ William Gibson
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
~ William Golding
Non hai pensato che ho sostenuto grandi sforzi e molte spese, e sono incorso in disagi personali, per arrivare fin qui» osservò l'uomo in nero «e se fallisco ora, potrei arrabbiarmi molto? E se lei dovesse smettere di respirare, tu potresti ammalarti della stessa fatale malattia?»
~ William Goldman
To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.
~ William James
The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;
~ Chinese proverb
For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an illness you can cure yourself of by standing up and letting the big red cinema seat fold itself up behind you.
~ Chris Cleave
If the Holy Spirit takes over your family, your business or your health, it doesn't matter what troubles you've been experiencing or what's been going wrong, you will begin to go from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from faith to faith, from success to success and from greatness to greatness. When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
Winegrowing lore said rosebushes were planted to serve as early-warning indicators of sickness in the vines. They supposedly were also a leftover tradition from the days when horse-drawn plows worked the vineyards—the thorns encouraged the beasts to make wide turns and thus reduce the potential damage to the stakes and wires that supported the rows.
~ Christie Ridgway
Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.
~ Heidi Murkoff
prayer is the most powerful means of healing of all sickness, both physical and spiritual.
~ Helen Bacovcin