We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And… — William James Copy Share Image
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
“The poet makes himself a seer through a long, tremendous, planned detachment of all his senses. All the forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbauld Copy Share Image
“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it. — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Men are having sex with animals and we wonder why the animals attack us. And I'll tell you why: it's cuz of… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it prevent him from realizing his desires; it… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Bid a sick man in sadness make his will: Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill! In sadness, cousin,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him;… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image