Sickness Quotes

547 Sickness quotes by 428 unique authors

But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the… — Christopher Paolini
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte
A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments! — Nicholas A. Basbanes
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of… — Hermann Hesse
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a… — Harper Lee
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… — Richard John Neuhaus
Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have… — Harry S. Truman
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death... — Osamu Tezuka
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because… — Theodore Kaczynski
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big… — Jack Kerouac
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit. — Frank McCourt
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a… — Frantz Fanon
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a… — Patricia Briggs
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great… — Clive Barker
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep… — Dean Koontz
...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the… — Hermann Hesse
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even… — Novalis
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all… — Chuck Palahniuk
Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses...… — Alfred Bester
The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you… — John Piper
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think… — Clive Barker
I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I… — Charles Bukowski

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