Barren Quote by Sylvia Plath

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

— Olaf Stapledon

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

— Rumi

“Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Alexander Pope

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

— Flannery O'Connor

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

— Maxwell Maltz

Sickness shows us what we are

— Latin Proverb

Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the…

— Paul Klee

I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto