Quotes About A Sick Friend

#1. When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

Julia Cameron

#2. All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.

W. H. Auden

#3. Mulled ale for the frozen man,
And mulled ale for the weary:
For mulled ale is the body's friend
And makes the sick heart merry.

Frans G. Bengtsson

#4. She even smells like sin, like some exotic lotus.

George R R Martin

#5. I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society.

Jessica Anthony

#6. It's very strange to be an imaginary friend. You can't be suffocated and you can't get sick and you can't fall and break your head and you can't catch pneumonia. The only thing that can kill you is a person not believing in you.

Matthew Green

#7. Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes
that would be another very nice way for people to look.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. 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

#9. I have seen great men err and err greatly

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#10. She just looked right at him the only way she ever had, like he was the only other person in the world.

John Corey Whaley

#11. To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Epicurus

#12. Our universities teach non-white, non-Christian, and female students to find offense everywhere. American students get degrees in Finding Offense.

Dennis Prager

#13. When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#14. A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

Richard Baxter

#15. Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Bob Marley

#16. In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

Elvis Presley

#17. A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.

Emily Dickinson

#18. I didn't have a boyfriend. I had someone to watch horror movies with while my best friend was too sick with cancer.

Julie Halpern

#19. If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

Lee Strobel

#20. I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

Anne Enright

#21. The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus

#22. There. We can be friends now."
"Someone like you could never be my friend."
"Why ever not?"
"Because I'm a nice person, and you're a sick, twisted bitch.

John Hennessy

#23. I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

Ellen Barkin

#24. My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even, to stay with her, always her, my sister, my friend to the end. It was a story after all, even if a sick one. It was completely ours.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#25. My wife is my best friend. The thought that people are afraid to go home to their partners for fear of being abused physically or emotionally makes me feel sick. It's not easy but you need to get help and get out.

Shane Filan

#26. The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Robert Benchley

#27. I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.

Diego Rivera