Sickness Quotes - Page 12

• Can you visualize a world with no more death, no more pain, no more hunger, no more fear, no more sorrow, no more crying nor sickness, a world where everything is a joy and a pleasure? - A society where everybody works together in harmony, cooperation and love? That's Heaven!

  David Berg

  Pain, Joy, Heaven

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• All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have a body which is similar to our present physical body, but so much more glorious and wonderful and supernatural. We will be able to eat, drink, be merry and have fun without ever suffering pain or sickness or weariness or death.

  David Berg

  Fun, Pain, Suffering

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• Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

  Francis Bacon

  Strong, Science, Doctors

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• A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disease, Bears, Temper

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, People

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

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• I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

  Norman Mailer

  Believe, Self, America

  "His Punch Is Better Than Ever". Interview with Bonnie Angelo, content.time.com. September 30, 1991.

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• Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.

  Ovid

  Body, Disease, Ventilation

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• There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Faith, Fear, Moving

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• Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

  Alex Grey

  Forever, Creative, Soul

  Alex Grey (2008). “Art Psalms”, p.23, North Atlantic Books

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• In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Father, Mean, Heart

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Real, Gentleman, Conscious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

  Frank McCourt

  Dad, Son, Fit

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• It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Art, Believe

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• A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

  Dean Koontz

  Death, Men, People

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Husband: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam

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• ...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Soul, Generations

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

  Novalis

  Powerful, Spring, Real

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• Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, War, Nice

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

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• Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

  Alfred Bester

  Grateful, Passion, Men

  Alfred Bester (1978). “Demolished Man”, Pocket

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• Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Book, Wish, Mouths

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.166, BookBaby

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• Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Pain, Our Society, Manipulation

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Teacher, Betrayal, Men

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• It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Believe, Men

  "Of the Geometrical Spirit". Book by Blaise Pascal, 2015.

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• Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

  George Saunders

  Medicine, Confusion, Advice

  George Saunders’ Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Joy, Fearless

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Heart, Character

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

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