Sickness Quotes - Page 17

• If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. The beginning is glorious, especially if you're lucky enough not to have morning sickness and if, like me, you've had small breasts all your life. Suddenly they begin to grow, and you've got them, you've really got them, breasts, darling breasts, and when you walk down the street they bounce, truly they do, they bounce bounce bounce.

  Nora Ephron

  Morning, Pregnancy, Book

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.44, Vintage

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• I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.  I think my liver hurts.  However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me.  I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine.  What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Hurt, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.295

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• Worry and stress is one of the most unhealthiest things. They say that cancer and sickness comes from that, so you know I do my best. There are times that I do feel very stressed, but I do my best to keep it away and get plenty of rest.

  Carmen Electra

  Cancer, Stress, Worry

  "Model, Actress, Musician Carmen Electra: Staying Calm in a Stressful Business". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions

  Frantz Fanon

  Europe, Two, America

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

  Patanjali

  Nice, Grief, Self

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• That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

  Max Muller

  Home, Reality, Soul

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

  Ellen G. White

  Mean, Use, Care

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• God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

  John Donne

  War, Justice, Age

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.

  Angela Carter

  Morning, Children, Moving

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• ...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him.

  Hermann Hesse

  Expression, People, Soul

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

  William James

  Sick, Failing, Ifs

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• Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Loss, Feelings, Quality

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Results

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• When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

  Katherine Heigl

  People, Magazines, Exhausted

  "The Girl of Summer '07". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2007.

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• I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

  Coeur de pirate

  Loss, Losing Someone, Trying

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• We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Sick, Church

  "Pope Francis on gay marriage, unmarried mothers ... and journalists". www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2013.

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• People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.

  David Duchovny

  Country, Thinking, Land

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• Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly." No, I'm not," said Ani. Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Thinking, Stubbornness

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Goose Girl”, p.288, A&C Black

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• If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Wise, Men, Sick

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Eye, Cutting, Healthy

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.113, Modern Library

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• There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Dark, Nursing

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• It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of sickness--physical and moral: all the others are purely in the imagination.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Real, Philosophical, Doctors

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• It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Heart, Moral, Seems

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• Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Rivers, Years, Cities

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter IV, Section,

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