Sick Quotes - Page 13

• Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

  Samuel Johnson

  Two, Bores You, Boredom

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for May 1776)

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• When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick.

  Thomas Beecham

  Smoking, Tobacco, Objects

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• Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

  David Hume

  Dream, Religious, Men

  "The Natural History of Religion".

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• Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. Meditation is the experience: "I am not my body, not my mind - I am the witness of it all." This experience, this transcendental experience, immensely transforms the whole situation. Many things which were driving you crazy simply drop away.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Mean, Discipline

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• Put your whole energy into meditation. Once you are centered in your being, once you know the inner path, then wherever you are you can manage to go to the center without any difficulty. Even when you are dying, it will not make any difference. You may be sick, it will not make any difference.

  Rajneesh

  Differences, Meditation, Dying

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• If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Learning, Health, Science

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hurt, Health, Dark

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.103, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Reality

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.4

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• You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to put people who are sick and dying with cancer and are being helped with marijuana if they have multiple sclerosis - the federal government is going in there and overriding state laws and putting people like that in prison.

  Ron Paul

  Cancer, Marijuana, Government

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• Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents expect to die? They took life for granted, as we do. How often do we hear stories of people whom we know, or even friends, who died unexpectedly? We don't even have to be ill to die: Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Fall, Order

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• I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Tired, Native American, Heart

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• We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.

  William James

  Life, Men, Vanity

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Dream, Memories

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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• We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Party, Home

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

  Tom Waits

  Funny, Life, Death

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• The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Shadow, Fool

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.55

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• We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Responsibility, Age

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• The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

  David Livingstone

  Church, Missionary, Motto

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• Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Soup Kitchens, Generosity, Feel Good

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. April 29, 2010.

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• For the sick it is important to have the best.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Important, Importance

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• The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

  William Cowper

  Sleep, Nurse, Watches

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 1 'The Sofa' l. 89

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• ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Mother, Heart

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.87, Anchor

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• The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mental Health, Deny, Existence

  The Conduct of Life, Worship

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• The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

  Tennessee Williams

  Differences, Envy, World

  Tennessee Williams (1972). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Insanity

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