Sickness Quotes

547 Sickness quotes by 428 unique authors

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… — Thomas Ligotti
So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to… — Lauren Beukes
Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze… — Don DeLillo
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with… — Richard Linklater
Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that… — Joseph Bruchac
The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences. — Thomas Bernhard
Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to… — Lauren Oliver
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. — Jonathan Safran Foer
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is… — Pam Brown
And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that… — Markus Zusak
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning — Charles Bukowski
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness.… — John Piper
I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the… — Helene Cixous
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous… — Luke Davies
You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a… — Ernest Hemingway
As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it,… — David Levithan
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the… — Erich Fromm
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind.… — Stephen King
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.… — Albert Ellis
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you. — Larry McMurtry
When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are… — Oswald Chambers
At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part. — John Green
..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin. — Sarah Waters

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