Sick Quotes - Page 5

• Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

  Gilbert Parker

  Morning, Heart, Men

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• I know it makes sense for me and him to just break up now and just live our seperate lives and not have to worry about missing each other all the time. But when I think about that, I get sick. Physically sick. Like I seriously throw up. I need to be with him, even if I can’t, like, be with him.

  Megan McCafferty

  Thinking, Worry, Missing

  Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.128, Broadway Books

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• For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

  Steven Morrissey

  Graves, Traveler, Depraved

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• It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sweet, Stars, Blood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

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• 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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• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  Barbra Streisand

  Home, People, Dying

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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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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 10

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• In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Credit, Unions

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• Then what happens? Diana demanded “Then were hit with massive doeses of radiation. It’s invisible, but its like someone is shooting tiny bullets at you. They blow millions of tiny holes through your body. You get sick. Your hair falls out. You vomit. You die

  Michael Grant

  Fall, Blow, Hair

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• Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Too Late, Wellness

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Long, People

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• And the truth is, I’d felt kind of a thrill about wearing Jason’s Big Boy pants. I was a sick kid, even way back then.

  Meg Cabot

  Kids, Boys, Jason

  Meg Cabot (2008). “How to be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.!”, p.54, Pan Macmillan

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• Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sea, Asking, Bears

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.163, Delphi Classics

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• I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still accidents, hidden traps, and snares. You could get killed on an airplane or crossing the street. Your marriage could fall apart when you weren't looking; your husband could lose his job; our baby could get sick or die.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Jobs, Husband

  Jennifer Weiner (2006). “Little Earthquakes”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Girl, Distance, Reading

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• You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Knows

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Adrift on the Nile”, p.21, Anchor

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• Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of most blessed power in those moments of pain and of langour, when the whole head is sore, and the whole heart sick. If those who rail indiscriminately at this species of composition, were to consider the quantity of actual pleasure it produces, and the much greater proportion of real sorrow and distress which it alleviates, their philanthropy ought to moderate their critical pride, or religious intolerance.

  Walter Scott

  Religious, Pain, Real

  Sir Walter Scott (1829). “The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists”, p.256

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• Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

  Charles Dickens

  Compassion, Confusion, Remembrance

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.825, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm sick of my own romanticism!

  Anais Nin

  My Own, Romanticism

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• Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick.

  Emily Mortimer

  Vanity, Mcdonalds, Eating

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• I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Doubt, Paper, Want

  "Rupert Murdoch: News Corporation Magnate". Book by Sue Vander Hook, p. 32, 2011.

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