Sickness Quotes - Page 18

• All rights and laws are still transmitted,
  Like an eternal sickness to the race.
  [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte
  Wie eine ew'ge Krankheit fort.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rights, Race, Law

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• Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

  Petrarch

  Vices, Virtue

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• The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

  A. E. Housman

  Happiness, Joy, Mind

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

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• Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Fighting, White

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• I’d had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and it’s not until something pretty major happens that you’re like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.

  Tori Spelling

  Morning, Pregnancy, Miscarriage

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• I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.

  Bill Rancic

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Morning, Night, Sick

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

  Dirk Benedict

  Pulse, Males, Benches

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• I am so addicted to crystals, it’s like a sickness. I’ve spent $500,000 on crystals this year. I checked my bank account last night, and I have $203 left.

  Spencer Pratt

  Night, Years, Lasts

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• As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

  Winifred Holtby

  People, Mind, Body

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Hurt, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.295

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• Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

  Aleister Crowley

  Aversion, Failing, Shame

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Heart, Moral, Seems

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• It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey

  Pregnancy, Insult, Imagine

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1873). “What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers”, p.165

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• When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Singleness Of Purpose, Rights

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• I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

  Lydia Lunch

  Hurt, Sex, Healing

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• The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Rising Up, Feet

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Death, Steps, Life Is

  Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1839). “Sermons”, p.129

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• There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

  Joseph Prince

  Love, Overcoming, Want

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• Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

  Thomas Campion

  Night, Men, Please Me

  1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.

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• You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.

  Joni Rodgers

  Morning, Pregnancy, Hangover

  Joni Rodgers (1999). “Sugar Land: A Novel”, Spinsters Ink Books

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• The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Clever, Real

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

  Martha Ostenso

  Shapes, Illness, Margins

  Martha Ostenso (1938). “The Mandrake Root”

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, Medicine, People

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