Sick Man Quotes - Page 2

• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

  John Owen

  Angel, Men, Safety

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.

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• Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land raised a great outcry. But Jesus answered with superior contempt that the Sabbath was there for the sake of man, not man for the sake of the Sabbath; consequently, man was also master over the Sabbath.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Jesus, Men, Land

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 229, 1930.

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• I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

  Florence Nightingale

  Death, Morning, Men

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.206, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

  Helen Waddell

  Men, Sick, Illness

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Sick, Mind Blowing

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• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

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• You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Thinking, Sick

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Solar Lottery”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Greatness

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.2393, Graphic Arts Books

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• Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

  John Steinbeck

  Ambition, Successful, Boys

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• While the sick man has life, there is hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Hope, Men, Sick

  "Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book IX, Chapter 10, Section 4), 68-43 BC.

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• Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

  David Hume

  Dream, Religious, Men

  "The Natural History of Religion".

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• Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I happy?" When you are feeling sad ask why you are sad. But strangely, it has become conventional to our minds that when we are sad we accept it as if it is our nature. And when we are joyous even we are surprised; deep inside we even start worrying: "What is happening to me?"

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Men, Asking Why

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• I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Moving, Science, Men

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• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Prayer

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• It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Sick, Erotic

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Men, Sick

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Sick, Suffering

  Richard Baxter (1654). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest”

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• This is a very sick man, this Obama.

  Mark Levin

  Men, Sick

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• Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

  John Gay

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

  Fables (Series 1), Fable 27

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• Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

  Voltaire

  Men, Doctors, Order

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• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Sick, Spiteful

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• He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

  Plato

  Men, Sick, Firsts

  Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.3399, Catholic Way Publishing

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• All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

  Ibn Warraq

  Dream, Men, Sick

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Why I Am Not a Muslim”, p.11, Prometheus Books

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• It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Medicine, Sick

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CIV

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