Sickness Quotes

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well

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

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

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

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

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.

I'm beginning to have morning sickness. I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning.

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

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

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

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

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

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

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

Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

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

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

It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness.

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

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

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

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.

How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

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.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.