Sick Quotes - Page 35

• The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

  Cesare Pavese

  Fate, Desire, Want

  Diary entry for February 03, 1943. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.

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• I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intellectual, Looks, Pearls

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.411, OUP Oxford

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• Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Mind, Intellectual

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Children, Animal, Men

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• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• I am sick as a horse.

  Laurence Sterne

  Horse

  Laurence Sterne (1819). “The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy. pt.6-9. A sentimental journey through France and Italy. pt.1-2”, p.84

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• O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Modern Life, Disease

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201

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• Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-spent time will strew our sick-bed with thorns, and rack our sinking spirits with despair.

  Reginald Heber

  Passion, Remembrance, Darkness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 547), 1895.

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• I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium...

  John F. Kerry

  War, Tired, White

  "Kerry’s Mangled Statement a Distraction —updated" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2006.

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• We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

  Barack Obama

  Use, Earth, Disease

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.

  Samuel Rutherford

  House, Miracle, Physicians

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• If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Night, Soul, Sin

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.98

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• Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

  David Lynch

  Want, Film, Jokes

  Dune Interview, www.youtube.com. April 21, 2012.

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• As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!

  Jessica Alba

  Crazy, Kids, Pneumonia

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• The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

  Eric Hoffer

  Soul, Humanity, World

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Who Cares, Tasks

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

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• What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Sound, Cold, Heal

  "A Doll's House". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Dr. Rank, Act I, 1879.

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• I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Princess, White

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

  John Fletcher

  War, Blood, People

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• Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Lines, Quiet, Failing

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.57, Basic Books

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• Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.

  Countee Cullen

  Heart, Glowing, Black

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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• Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

  Howard Zinn

  Reality, Self, Hands

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.9, Beacon Press

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• Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.

  Edmund White

  Song, Crazy, Luxury

  "A Boy's Own Story". Book by Edmund White, 1982.

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• How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.

  Edmund White

  Book, Past, Healthy

  "A Boy's Own Story". Book by Edmund White, 1982.

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• I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Mother, Cutting, Years

  Rose Wilder Lane's diary entry, December 9, 1933.

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