Sickness Quotes - Page 11

• It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.

  Patti Davis

  Resilience, Doe, Life Is

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• If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.

  Anne Royall

  Sex, Blessed, Race

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

  Stephen Fry

  Laughter, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

  Thomas More

  Wise, Medicine, Wish

  Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville (2008). “Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Instinct, Swiss

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.29, Penguin

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• civilization is a transient sickness.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Civilization, Illness, Miscellaneous

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.158, Stanford University Press

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• You can either be the sickness in your world or you can be the cure.

  Jessie Pavelka

  World, Cures

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• You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Desire

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.130, Library of America

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• 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.

  Virgil

  Age, Unhappy, Youth

  Virgil (1825). “The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse by John Dryden”, p.84

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• I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

  Edward Young

  Thinking, June, Practice

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts”, p.127

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• Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!

  Bob Marley

  Sorrow, Weakness, Forget You

  Song: THEM BELLY FULL BUT WE HUNGRY Album 'Live' 1975, Album: Natty Dread, 1974

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• You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

  Linus Pauling

  Disease, Nutrition, Wellness

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

  Robert Barron

  Intellectual, Culture, Resistance

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• Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Joy, Promise

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• In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Thinking, Europe, Long

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.163, Macmillan

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• Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

  George Saunders

  Medicine, Confusion, Advice

  George Saunders’ Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together, it is a pathology it is a sickness.

  Pat Roberts

  Two, People, Together

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• Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

  Chuck Barris

  Effort, Feelings, Rotten

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• I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

  Myrtle Fillmore

  Children, Child Of God

  Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore (1949). “Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]”

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• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a wing, a fruit, a woody stem, or a claw appear. Mutations, in summary, tend to induce sickness, death, or deficiencies. No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambiguous evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation.

  Lynn Margulis

  Loss, Wings, Population

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• 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.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Political, States, Symptoms

  The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)

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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Gay, Rights

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Finding Yourself, Suffering

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• The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

  Maimonides

  Book, Reading, Men

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.465, Behrman House, Inc

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• The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

  Theodor Adorno

  Sibling, Health, Reason

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.73, Verso

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