Sickness Quotes

547 Sickness quotes by 428 unique authors

I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It felt… — Jonathan Safran Foer
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in… — Michael J. Fox
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security… — Anthony Bourdain
True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches. — Sylvia Plath
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with. — Tamora Pierce
I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And… — Kazuo Ishiguro
A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is… — Cameron Dokey
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I… — Sylvia Plath
If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a… — William Shakespeare
I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was… — Elizabeth Gaskell
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events,… — Elizabeth Gaskell
You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always… — Jeanne DuPrau
What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one… — Fred Rogers
The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an… — Brigham Young
Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside. — Nora Roberts
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other. — Gregory Maguire
I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that… — Francine Rivers
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. — Thomas Bernhard
Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance.… — Jostein Gaarder
Ni muer ni viu ni no guaris, Ni mal no·m sent e si l’ai gran, Quar de s’amor no suy devis, Ni no sai si… — Deborah Harkness
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck

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