Sickness Quotes - Page 22

• Too many people are stuck on sickness benefits because of issues that could be addressed but instead are not, some have drug or alcohol problems, but refuse treatment. In other cases, people have problems with their weight that could be addressed, but instead a life on benefits rather than work becomes the choice.

  David Cameron

  Life, Issues, People

  "David Cameron calls on obese to accept help or risk losing benefits" by Rowena Mason, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2015.

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• Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strong, Islands, Circles

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• A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.

  Robert Cormier

  Animal, Knowing, World

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.254, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

  Orson Scott Card

  Healing, Heart, Hands

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• But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.

  Christopher Paolini

  Land, Custodians, Poverty

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• Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Pain

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.135, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

  John Steinbeck

  Get Well, Thinking, People

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.233, Penguin

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• Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand she showed how important it was to help others; with her patience and kindness she showed me what life really is all about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed . . . Jamie also thought me the value of forgiveness and the transforming power it offers . . . Jamie was not only the angel who saved Tom Thornton, she was the angel who saved us all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kindness, Angel, Helping Others

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• A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

  Nicholas A. Basbanes

  Strong, Book, Men

  Nicholas A. Basbanes (1995). “A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books”, Henry Holt & Company

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• When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Fun, Looks

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• She disapproved, but part of her seemed secretly to sympathize with the sickness. It was like she thought everybody had it, and the best you could do was to cover it up, and sometimes it would just come boiling out anyway. Then you had to point at it and condemn it, even though you knew you had it too.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Sometimes, Boiling

  Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Because They Wanted To: Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• When in sickness, look to the spine first.

  Hippocrates

  Looks, Firsts, Spine

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• As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

  Charles Baudelaire

  Poverty, Melancholy, Remedy

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

  Plato

  Ignorance, Soul, Complacent

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• God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Grief, Sick, Suffering

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• When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.

  Hermann Hesse

  Struggle, Cutting, Years

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

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• Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

  Mark Buchanan

  Soul

  Mark Buchanan (2007). “The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Sick, Mind

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.144, Jaico Publishing House

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• Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

  John de Ruiter

  Prayer, Thinking, Essence

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• A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart!
  No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

  Rumi

  Pain, Heart, Lovers

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.273, Delphi Classics

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• You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Body, Embrace, Should

  Mary Baker Eddy (1890). “Science and Health: With Key to the Scriptures”

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• I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

  Shane Koyczan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Shots

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

  William S. Burroughs

  Powerful, War, Knowing

  "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (A One God Universe)". Studio album by William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, September 28, 1993.

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Age, Looks, Flesh

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.199, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Medicine, Restoration

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.339, GENERAL PRESS

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