Sickness Quotes - Page 8

• Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind, Body, Intellect

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• It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

  Carl Jung

  Doctors, Achievement, Moral

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only perfect man who ever lived-even Jesus of Nazareth-was called upon to endure great suffering, how can we, who are less than perfect, expect to be free of such challenges?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Pain, Adversity

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• Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.

  John of Kronstadt

  Adversity, Sorrow, Inward

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• The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

  Hu Shih

  Eye, Justice, Diversity

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• There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Differences, Despair

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• Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, War, Emotional

  "You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living".

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• Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Taken, Healing

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• Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Strength, Giving Up

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

  David Lloyd George

  Heart, Mean, Land

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• Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

  Osamu Dazai

  Addiction, Spirit

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Unique, Quiet Moments, Space

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• You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sleep, Loss, Zest

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

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• The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sick, Refinement, Ruling

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Men, Space

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.204

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• Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

  Arthur Koestler

  Silly, Men, Civilization

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “The trail of the dinosaur & other essays”

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• We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Destiny, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with annotations edited by Edward Waldo Emerson, and Waldo Emerson Forbes”, p.78, Рипол Классик

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• I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

  John Steinbeck

  Greatest Fear, People, Illness

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.710, Penguin

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• That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Giving, Poor, Worst

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Important, Today

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look at the foot how the burials increased or decreased, and among the Casualties what had happened, rare and extraordinary, in the week current; so as they might take the same as a Text to talk upon in the next company, and withal in the Plague-time, how the Sickness increased or decreased, that the Rich might judg of the necessity of their removal, and Trades-men might conjecture what doings they were likely to have in their respective dealings.

  John Graunt

  Science, Men, Feet

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• A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Years, Water

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.35, Open Road Media

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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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• Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

  Tim Daly

  Medicine, Wells, Eastern

  "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.

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• The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Dog, Lying

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

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