Being Sick Quotes

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Tired, Health

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sick, May, Possibility

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.198, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

  Dick Gregory

  Race, Medicine, Sick

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• The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

  Tony Snow

  Art, Get Well, Sick

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• I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

  Steven Adler

  Depressing, Tired, Sick

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• In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

  Karen Duffy

  Thinking, Ideas, Sick

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.

  Ken Wilber

  Healing, Compassion, Opportunity

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.162, Shambhala Publications

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• Being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses.

  Megan Boyle

  Glasses, Sick, Like You

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• Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

  Thomas Adams

  Healing, Sick, Prevention

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• Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

  Charles Simmons

  Healing, Health, Law

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• ...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

  Michel Foucault

  Sick, Different, Three

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• A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Sick, Ends, Hospitals

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• Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.

  Portia de Rossi

  Get Well, Mean, Insecure

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Happiness, Courage

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• I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.

  Graham Chapman

  Inspirational, Country, Fun

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• The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sick, World, Sick Man

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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

  Siri Hustvedt

  Sick, Culture, Phenomenology

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

  Alan Watts

  Sick, Interesting, Way

  Alan Watts (2017). “Alan Watts - In the Academy: Essays and Lectures”, p.360, SUNY Press

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• Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

  Gautama Buddha

  Thank You, Uplifting, Thankful

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• Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past.

  Bill Gates

  Cancer, Heart, Past

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.

  Scott Brooks

  Sick, Needs

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• Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

  Thomas Browne

  Health, Men, Thinking

  Sir Thomas Browne (1839). “Religio Medici”, p.80

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• Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

  Robert A. Burton

  Health, Men, Apples

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• Do something about your life now. You know you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. Don't just think about it, look at it, and complain about it to whoever will listen. Stop conning yourself into being a volunteer victim, or telling the same old story. You are better than that. It's time to stand up for yourself and your dream. This is the one and only life that you have. Don't waste it watching someone's life - on tv, in a movie, a series or reality show. Take your power back and make a move. Live your life on your terms, and create something new in your life. You Deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Moving, Tired

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