Sickness Quotes - Page 9

• Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Pain, Saint, Spirit

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• What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Blood, Ebb And Flow

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• Education is suffering from narration sickness.

  Paulo Freire

  Suffering, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed, Narration

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

  Saint Basil

  Evil, Soul, Causes

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.141, CUA Press

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• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

  Saint Basil

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Justice, Adoption

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• Dualistic thinking is a sickness.

  Laozi

  Thinking

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The parent gives the child a new car, money. They know the child wants these things and has to do what they want; otherwise, they withdraw the favors - manipulation, domination, no happiness, psychic sickness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Children, Yoga

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• As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of natural selection; and especially scarlet fever affected boys seriously, both physically and in character, though they might through life puzzle themselves to decide whether it had fitted or unfitted them for success.

  Henry Adams

  Character, Mean, Boys

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.10, Booklassic

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• There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Men, Justice

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• Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.

  Tiffany Baker

  Weed, Flower, Shadow Of Death

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• How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

  David Mamet

  Greed, Wealth, Traps

  David Mamet (2014). “Glengarry Glen Ross”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.

  Patti Davis

  Resilience, Doe, Life Is

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• To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

  Sholom Aleichem

  People, Laughing, Making People Laugh

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• Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

  Florence Welch

  Mean, Love Is, Madness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

  Robert Barron

  Intellectual, Culture, Resistance

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• The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Struggle, Passion, Men

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• Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

  Laozi

  Ignorance, Knowing, Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Believe, Soul

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• There are different levels of fame. There are the polite fans who quietly and respectfully approach you and ask for an autograph - and that's acceptable. But the next level... when you think you're having a moment of privacy and there's someone with a long lens catching you when you're about to eat, or sunbathe, or worse... it's just so intrusive and I think it's part of the sickness of our culture.

  Robert B. Weide

  Thinking, Long, Fans

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Diversity, Doe, Anomalies

  Georges Canguilhem (2000). “A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem”

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• If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.

  Marion Nestle

  Two, Doctors, Sick

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

  Rumi

  Perfect, Soul, Thyself

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• In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

  Virgil

  Age, Unhappy, Youth

  Virgil (1825). “The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse by John Dryden”, p.84

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• I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, June, Practice

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts”, p.127

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