Sickness Quotes - Page 18

• Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Thinking, Medicine

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• To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Ill Treatment, Profound

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• Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Saint, Use

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• The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It's time for science to examine the many facets of the soul. The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Men, Doctors

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.

  Marilu Henner

  Buttons, Tape, Plums

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• Hopefully our great movement powered by everyday citizens will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Everyday, Overcoming

  Source: time.com

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• If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, War, Night

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

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• Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Giving, Junk

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

  Hernando Cortes

  Heart, Historical, Gold

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• When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.

  Lauren Bacall

  Thinking, Talking, Use

  "TIME" Magazine, August 8, 2005.

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• Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Prayer, Needed

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• On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

  John James Audubon

  Exercise, Sea, May

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Memories, Past, Boredom

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.456, A&C Black

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• I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Here I Am, Body, Dolls

  Sylvia Plath (2012). “Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

  Pamela Anderson

  Being Happy, Morning, Cynical

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• Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

  Tamora Pierce

  Fighting, Sometimes, Enough

  Tamora Pierce (2011). “Briar's Book”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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• I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Girl, Heart, Eye

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Dec 31, 2013

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• A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

  Cameron Dokey

  Faults, Kind, Driven

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

  Sylvia Plath

  World, Victim, Barren

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.516, Anchor

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• You are what you dream you are and become. And, I wish Americans would get out of the sickness and just become greater.

  Matt Drudge

  Dream, Wish, Greater

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

  Joseph Prince

  Love, Overcoming, Want

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• The good news is that we are Buddha.
  The bad news is that all beings are Buddha.
  The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.

  Albert Low

  Unique, News, Being Human

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• I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.

  Bill Rancic

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

  John Henry Newman

  Spiritual, Sorrow, Doe

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• One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

  William Lyon Phelps

  Dream, Appreciation, Appreciate

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