Sick Quotes - Page 14

• And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Stupid, Twilight

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• Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Mind, Denial

  Henry Rollins (1990). “High Adventure in the Great Outdoors”, 2 13 61

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• Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Years, Anorexia

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.33, Scholastic UK

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• He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

  Joseph Heller

  Regret, Lust, Mesmerized

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities, Sidewalk, Whole

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.17, Canongate Books

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• if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

  Jodi Picoult

  Get Well, Wells, Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

  Chris Cleave

  Children, Olympics, Sick Children

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold”, p.284, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.113, Macmillan

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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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• But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while I'm the freak. It's not fair; like all the rules have suddenly changed and somebody forgot to tell me.

  Lauren Oliver

  Other Worlds, People, Giving

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Animal, Thinking

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• does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

  Neal Shusterman

  Memories, People, What If

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

  Eoin Colfer

  Smart, Kids, Car

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• ... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.

  S. E. Hinton

  Trying, Hey, Soda

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Penguin

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• ME: You 're a sick girl. ERIN: Guilty as charged. :)

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Guilty, Erin

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• After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.

  Brené Brown

  Fear, Tired, Past

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• ‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

  Barry Goldwater

  Believe, Government, Differences

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• You say you’re sick, huh? Well, it looks like you’ve come down with a case of bullshit.

  Justin Halpern

  Bullshit, Looks, Like You

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Sh*t My Dad Says”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

  Charlaine Harris

  Bullshit, Anxiety, Wish

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• Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

  Susan Cain

  Memories, Insecure, People

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.84, Broadway Books

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• When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Oxygen, Order

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Healing, Thinking, Soul

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• It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hurt, Health, Dark

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.103, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Mother, Heart

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.87, Anchor

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• Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

  Tracey Gold

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Bulimia

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