Sickness Quotes - page 9

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. (Lauren Bacall)
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to "watch one's health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth. View quote
Blaise Pascal
But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost. View quote
James Frey
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. View quote
John Donne
I have vicarious morning sickness. Other people's babies make me nauseous. View quote
Jacob M. Appel
Cruel Love! You bear our death in murderous vials, filled now with gall, now with your honeyed treasure- equally fatal all that you ensure, whether it be the sickness or the cure. View quote
Torquato Tasso
Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel. View quote
John Wycliffe
Hope deferred is sickness to the heart - and she was now suffering that sickness, at its worst. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
She said "Oh rather thank thy God, My lot is not thine own. How would my weary feet rejoice Like thine to walk and run Over the soft and fragrant grass, Beneath yon cheerful sun. And yet I trust to God's good will My spirit is resign'd ; Though sore my sickness, it is borne At least with patient mind. Though noble be my father's name, And vast my father's wealth; He would give all, could he but give His only child thy health ! Ah, judge not by the outside show Of this world, vain and frail -”. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes. View quote
Michael Servetus
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence. View quote
William S. Burroughs
I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. View quote
William Gibson
When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted. View quote
Katherine Heigl
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment. View quote
Michio Kushi
For all of ignorant people of a nation, even if their body is somehow strong, somehow grand, even then they can only make meaningless displays [of this "strength"]. [As for] the multitude of constituents and observers, however many may die from [this] sickness, this is [still] not to be considered as unfortunate. View quote
Lu Xun
Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside. View quote
Nora Roberts
I maintain now that sickness might consist of not having symptoms when you should. Does health mean being symptom-free? I deny it. View quote
Abraham Maslow
I am deliberately rejecting our present easy distinction between sickness and health, at least as far as surface symptoms are concerned. (Abraham Maslow)
Nearly every tale that men tell of magic and witches and such is born out of foolishness and ignorance and sickness of mind-or is a way of explaining things they do not understand. View quote
Susan Cooper
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty fourseven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes around. We're the rocks. And what happens to us- the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse- why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years. So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. View quote
Hester Thrale
I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev