Sick Quotes - Page 18

• Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

  Italo Svevo

  Mirrors, People, Doe

  Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.163, Vintage

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• There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

  Major Owens

  Running, Thinking, People

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• God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it

  Stephen Stills

  Want, Crosby, Living On

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• I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time

  Gavin DeGraw

  Bars, Attention, My Family

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• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  Pat Summerall

  Believe, Scales, Score

  "Political Sex Scandal; Interview With Pat Summerall; 'Minding Your Business': Wal-Mart; '90-Second Pop'". "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

  Kelly Braffet

  Nature, Sense Of Humor

  Kelly Braffet (2012). “Josie and Jack: A Novel”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Real, Air, Shoes

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• I'm so sick of the words 'gay' and 'lesbian'. They're just people... One day I want my son to come home from school and be like, 'I found this guy, and I love him.' And I'm gonna be like, 'Yes, you do, and that's ok.'

  Josh Hutcherson

  Home, School, Son

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Men, Dinner

  Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

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• We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.

  William James

  Life, Men, Vanity

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Dream, Memories

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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• On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

  Tom Waits

  Funny, Life, Death

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• The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Shadow, Fool

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.55

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• Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Soup Kitchens, Generosity, Feel Good

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. April 29, 2010.

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• For the sick it is important to have the best.

  Florence Nightingale

  Science, Important, Importance

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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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• The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mental Health, Deny, Existence

  The Conduct of Life, Worship

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Insanity

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• The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Desire

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.48, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Bed, Disease

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

  William Howard Taft

  Politics, Politician

  "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt". Book by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.

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• Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

  Charles Barkley

  Conservative, Stomach

  "CNN Invites Charles Barkley to Trash Conservative 'Fake Christians'". Article by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. February 17, 2008.

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• Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!

  Guy Fieri

  Numbers, Talking, Hated

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• A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Cutting, Waiting

  "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict". Book by William S. Burroughs (published under the pseudonym William Lee), 1953.

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• There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.

  Winona Ryder

  Home, Looks, Almonds

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