Sickness Quotes - Page 2

• First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

  Oliver Sacks

  Firsts, Patient

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mankind, Defects

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 100, 1799.

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• Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Comfort, Captivity

  The Rambler No. 67

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• But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

  John Wesley

  Medicine, Disease, Physicians

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.308

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• Both sin and sickness came into the world through the fall of the human race. Therefore, we must look for the healing of both in the savior of the human race. God is as willing to heal believers as He is to forgive unbelievers. Know this; if He was merciful enough to forgive you when you were unconverted, He is merciful enough to heal you now that you are in His family!

  T.L. Osborn

  Fall, Healing, Race

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• When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.

  Joel Osteen

  Dark, Worry, Giving

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• Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

  John Donne

  Wells, Knows

  John Donne (2016). “Nativity. Poems”, p.19, Litres

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• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  Abdul Kalam

  India, Terrorism, Crime

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• People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, People, Choices

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• If you think research is expensive, try disease!

  Mary Lasker

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Trying

  "The Lasker Legacy". www.laskerfoundation.org.

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• In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.

  Tony Snow

  Eye, Joy, Soul

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• Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

  Norman Cousins

  Food, Health, Doctors

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

  Albert Speer

  Normal, Opinion, Illness

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• Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Character, Men, Aquariums

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

  Alexander Pope

  Age, States, Teach

  Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

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• We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

  Lionel Trilling

  Ideas, Ill, Universal

  1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Art and Neurosis'.

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• It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sick, Leisure, Illness

  Journals Vol. V

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• Some remedies are worse than the disease.

  Publilius Syrus

  Latin, Health, Rome

  "Maxims". 301,

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• When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Over You, Body, Spirit

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2004). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do In You”, p.11, LoveWorld Publishing

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• Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Sick, Too Late

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Gold, Inheritance, Rich

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.115, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  Jackie Mason

  Retirement, Health, Age

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

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• Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Sex, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

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• If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more

  Jim Stynes

  Life, Cancer, Disease

  Jim Stynes (2012). “My Journey”, p.280, Penguin UK

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