Sickness Quotes - Page 6

• This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dream, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.

  Sam Keen

  Wise, Wisdom, Spring

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• Spread the sickness, infect the world.

  David Draiman

  World, Spread

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• I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Attention, Use

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• This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

  Aeschylus

  Doe, Tyranny, Inherent

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus”

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• Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Unique, Quiet Moments, Space

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• The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

  Maimonides

  Book, Reading, Men

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.465, Behrman House, Inc

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• How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Men, Space

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.204

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• Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

  Tim Daly

  Medicine, Wells, Eastern

  "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.

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• I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

  John Steinbeck

  Greatest Fear, People, Illness

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.710, Penguin

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• That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Giving, Poor, Worst

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hangover, Mean, People

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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• In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Heart, Men

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• Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.

  Norman Tebbit

  Sleep, Boredom, Personality

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• [Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

  Janet Malcolm

  Disappointment, Eye, Wrinkles

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• The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Important, Today

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Years, Water

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise.

  Jean Klein

  Home, Love Is, Paradise

  Jean Klein (2015). “Be Who You Are”, p.27, New Harbinger Publications

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• We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Later In Life, Hands

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.382, Open Road Media

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• A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

  Felicia Hemans

  Flower, Passion, Thinking

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• Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

  Arthur Koestler

  Silly, Men, Civilization

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “The trail of the dinosaur & other essays”

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• To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

  Philip Neri

  Spirit, Trouble, Cheerfulness

  Saint Philip Neri, Faber, Frederick William Faber (1995). “If God be with Us: The Maxims of St. Philip Neri”, p.49, Gracewing Publishing

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• A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

  Hippocrates

  Men, Thinking, Blessing

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• The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Finding Yourself, Suffering

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• You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sleep, Loss, Zest

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

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