Being sick Quote by Siri Hustvedt

Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society…

— Anonymous

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

— Edward Abbey

We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

— Steve Toltz

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

— Alexander Pope

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

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

— Thomas Wolfe

When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

— Josh Homme

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

— Herbert Marcuse

Sickness shows us what we are

— Latin Proverb