Sickness Quotes

547 Sickness quotes by 428 unique authors

We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. — Lionel Trilling
Make sickness itself a prayer. — Saint Francis de Sales
The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer… — James Gleick
Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well. — Tim Daly
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of… — Maimonides
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And… — Wang Wei
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end… — John Ruskin
Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our… — Frederick Lenz
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions… — Vance Havner
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter
Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection. — M. Scott Peck
This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream. — Dave Barry
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of… — Sam Keen
I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention… — John Steinbeck
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends. — Aeschylus
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times… — Johannes Tauler
A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which… — Jules de Goncourt
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. — Samuel Daniel
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones,… — Ignatius Loyola
Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon.… — Lady Gregory
My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow… — Margaret Cavendish
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the… — Diana DeGette
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… — Lou Reed
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth… — Richard Rosen
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to… — Plato

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