Sickness Quotes - Page 21

• No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

  Djuna Barnes

  Men, Needs, Looks

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

  James Martineau

  Summer, Fall, Heart

  James Martineau (1858). “Endeavors after the Christian life: discourses”, p.227

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• Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Get Well, Cutting

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

  Margaret Halsey

  Hands, Giving, Disease

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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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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• 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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• We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

  Hillary Clinton

  Care, Health Care, Promoting

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• Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

  Zelda Popkin

  Grief, Sleep, Body

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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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• What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Book, Writing, Scott Fitzgerald

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.68, U of Minnesota Press

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• Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Health, Law

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.324, Northwestern University Press

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• Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Lying, Heart

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7646, Delphi Classics

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• Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

  Laozi

  Love, Giving Up, People

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• Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.

  Francis of Assisi

  Forgiving, Trials, Lord

  "Canticle of the Sun". As translated by Bill Barrett from the Umbrian text of the Assisi codex,

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• Too many people are stuck on sickness benefits because of issues that could be addressed but instead are not, some have drug or alcohol problems, but refuse treatment. In other cases, people have problems with their weight that could be addressed, but instead a life on benefits rather than work becomes the choice.

  David Cameron

  Life, Issues, People

  "David Cameron calls on obese to accept help or risk losing benefits" by Rowena Mason, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2015.

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• Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.

  Ridley Scott

  Thinking, People, Sick

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Political correctness is an intellectual sickness. It means lying when telling the truth is not expedient. It is a disgusting habit and yet it is so widespread and so common that it is considered to be normal.

  Ali Sina

  Lying, Mean, Political

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Ivory, Suffering, Watches

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• Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, War, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

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• When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.

  Julian of Norwich

  Night, Years, Church

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

  Sophocles

  Sleep, Eye, Men

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.250, University of Chicago Press

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• We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Character, Judging

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• God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Grief, Sick, Suffering

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