Absorption Quote by Richard Hofstadter

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

— Sidney Jourard

People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.

— Jules Romains

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

— Oprah Winfrey

It's a ridiculous function of modern work life that we can't just be sick, we then have to beat ourselves up about being sick.

— Katty Kay

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

— Alice B. Toklas

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

— Elias Canetti

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and…

— Tony Snow

People who ignore, dismiss, repress or just ventilate their emotions, are setting themselves up for physical illness.

— Senoraroy

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

— John Green

Sickness shows us what we are

— Latin Proverb