Quotes About Ulcer

#1. You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Rumi

#2. I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

Harry S. Truman

#3. Okay," he said slowly as his ulcer came back with friends. "To certain death, dismemberment, and undignified screams, let us march!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. When no one can see who you are, no one really knows you. The loneliness must be like an ulcer that's always gnawing at your gut.

Andrea Cremer

#5. It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

Jean Kwok

#6. Why do I do it, when it always hurts me? Why must we test the pain? Tongue the ulcer, rub the blister, pick the scab?

Joe Abercrombie

#7. Which would give her an ulcer first? All the aspirin and prescription pain medication she took, or Jack Carlton? Then again, that left only one cause, since he was the reason she needed the drugs to begin with.

Dawn M. Turner

#8. Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.

Richard Matheson

#9. I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, Don't Worry Me
I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.

Harry S. Truman

#10. There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

Nelson Rockefeller

#11. I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

Shane West

#12. The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.

Victor Hugo

#13. I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

Barry Marshall

#14. I wanted to do 'Texas Trilogy' on stage. But it didn't do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly there, thanks to the critics. It was said that Preston Jones, the author, died of ulcer complications, but the truth was that the critics killed him.

Diane Ladd

#15. I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

Alicia Silverstone

#16. Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

Austin O'Malley

#17. Before she'd worn her first black dress, fear had splintered into a hundred pieces inside her, and each one turned into a painful ulcer. To keep anyone from touching those spots, she'd pulled away before they got a chance.

Cindy Woodsmall

#18. Damn it," he mumbled apologetically, "things like this never happened to Vorthalia the Bold."
She raised a thoughtful eyebrow. "How do you know? The histories of those times were all written by minstrels and poets. You try and think of a word that rhymes with 'bleeding ulcer

Lois McMaster Bujold

#19. Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

William James Mayo

#20. The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.

Barry Marshall

#21. Your ability to survive anything that gets thrown at you sometimes leaves the rest of us swallowing ulcer medication for days afterward. I don't like the taste of Maalox.

Patricia Briggs

#22. I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

Sharon Van Etten

#23. Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Socrates

#24. The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you've got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.

Vironika Tugaleva

#25. Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

Plutarch

#26. Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

Tommy Bolt

#27. Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.

Barry Marshall

#28. Beasley was a little man whose face looked like an X ray of an ulcer.

Rod Serling

#29. It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.

Barry Marshall

#30. Everything wanting to contribute to my ulcer, Get in line and take a number!

James Patterson

#31. Yes, I have an ulcer, for Chrissake. This is Kaliyuga, buddy, the Iron Age. Anybody over sixteen without an ulcer's a goddam spy.

J.D. Salinger

#32. I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.

Paul Lynde

#33. Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

Michel De Montaigne

#34. You were like an ulcer on the inside of my cheek that my tongue could not stop touching.
loving you was like watching a stranger clean a week old wound; i felt sick, but i wanted more.

Warsan Shire