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Quotes About Sickness

No'm he aint ill. Not unless laziness is a sickness. If it is, I'd say he's close to dying tomorrow.
~ Morgan Llywelyn
Knowing ignorance is strength. Ignoring knowledge is sickness.
~ Unknown
The boy worked there about eighteen months, came home one evening with a shortness of breath. He said, "Mother, I cannot get my breath." Shirley was sick about three months. I would carry him from his bed to the table, from his bed to the porch. in my arms.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The health system was also skewed for profit. She presciently noted, "It is the direct interest of the physician that sickness shall prevail, since the people pay the doctors for treatment, not for health." If patients had a "contract by the year for treatment," it would be in the "direct interest of the physician to preserve them in the best possible health," as a healthy patient would be alive to continue paying the annual fee.
~ Unknown
He's a sick old man who's lost everything and everyone. You have a huge heart, Gabriel—find room in it to be kind.
~ Nalini Singh
The Noble Truth of Suffering, dukkha is this: 'Birth is suffering; aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief, and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering--in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.' Samyutta Nikaya 56.11.
~ Naomi Ragen
bad vibes, an underlying sickness or misery that oozed out around the edges of conversations and interactions.
~ Nevada Barr
Thomas, the doubter — when disciplined — would deny that sickness or anything else which was not in sympathy with the consciousness to which he belonged had any power to affect him.
~ Neville Goddard
Your imagination is the instrument, the means, whereby your redemption from slavery, sickness, and poverty is effected. If you refuse to assume the responsibility of the incarnation of a new and higher concept of yourself, then you reject the means, the only means, whereby your redemption — that is, the attainment of your ideal — can be effected.
~ Neville Goddard
I shudder when I imagine getting old. Up until a few months ago, I didn't even have hope of surviving past my twenties. Now that I want to live again, all this sickness and decay makes me feel humble and even slightly humiliated. How could I have so willingly thrown my life away when all these people are fighting desperately, every day, to save theirs?
~ Unknown
Robert Kennedy spoke shortly before his death about the damage to a society caused by "the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men," by "indifference and inaction and slow decay" and by "a slow destruction of children." Kennedy added that "only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our souls.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
The gentleman also made searching inquiries concerning the hygienic condition of the countryside. Was there, he asked, much sickness about — whether sporadic fever, fatal forms of ague, smallpox, or what not? Yet, though his solicitude concerning these matters showed more than ordinary curiosity, his bearing retained its gravity unimpaired, and from time to time he blew his nose with portentous fervour.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Don't worry about it, Borage. I've always been inclined to think that the Apostle Paul was similarly afflicted. He speaks often of a bodily weakness, and men have been at pains to name it, attibuting to him everything from lameness to lung sickness. But I think the clue lies in his experience on the road to Damascus. Tell me, do you see a great light? Dr. Trudgett
~ Unknown
How stupid to be sick and know where there was healing and decide to stay sick.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It was milk that had sickened her. Animal milk! These people cooked many things with animal milk!
~ Octavia E. Butler
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
~ Osamu Dazai
It wasn't an ordinary sickness. God had killed me, and only after He had made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.
~ Osamu Dazai
Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.
~ Osamu Tezuka
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others.
~ Oscar Wilde
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
~ Oswald Chambers
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship— when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
~ Oswald Chambers