Sick Illness Quotes

#1. Being sick successfully is not included in society's panoply of worthy goals.

Kaimana Wolff

#2. This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

David T. Dellinger

#3. Everyone is a Taoist at heart. Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into practice ... as soon as someone gets sick, they fight the illness, rather than trying to find out the meaning or purpose behind it.

Arnold Mindell

#4. Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Helen Waddell

#5. When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.

Luanne Rice

#6. It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would not have discovered my enormous capacity to endure. I would have not have embraced this deeply contemplative place within my own being.

Katina Makris

#7. Men could be utter pussycats when they had even a touch of the sniffles.

Thomm Quackenbush

#8. Home is the best place to be sick in.

Margaret Deland

#9. You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

Mehmet Oz

#10. Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.

Vince Lombardi

#11. To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Richard Hofstadter

#12. This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Ruby Wax

#13. For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an illness you can cure yourself of by standing up and letting the big red cinema seat fold itself up behind you.

Chris Cleave

#14. It is proven that cars can affect your health.

Steven Magee

#15. I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.

Judy Blume

#16. Psychosis can happen out of the blue, to anyone, and no one knows why. Not even the best doctors on the planet.
And that's why Mom is always so afraid. If we don't know what made me sick in the first place, how can anyone guarantee I won't flip out again?

Jeannine Garsee

#17. The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Tony Snow

#18. As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

Jacob Epstein

#19. Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Pete Earley

#20. There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.

Steven Magee

#21. There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.

R. Alan Woods

#22. In about an 18-month period, my mother got sick and died, and then I had a freak illness less than a year later and almost died myself. And I found in both of those situations that there was this expectation to have a kind of transformative experience.

Meghan Daum

#23. If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.
The Content of the Psychoses

C. G. Jung

#24. Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#25. Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there
put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

Daniel Handler

#26. When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

Jack Osbourne

#27. Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.

Thomas Carper

#28. A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick ... and it's profitable.

Heather Donahue

#29. My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

Henny Youngman

#30. An hour seldom passed in which she didn't either sneeze, pick her nose, or wipe a bogie onto her snot-encrusted sleeve. But she had such a lovely colour. That pink glow which comes with the flu used to engulf her like an aura. It suited her. She always looked so damn effervescent.

Joss Sheldon

#31. I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.

Betsy Lerner

#32. When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

Mary Jane Ward

#33. The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

Michel De Certeau

#34. This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#35. A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

Debasish Mridha

#36. I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

Jello Biafra

#37. Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Chris Cleave

#38. A chronic invalid has but one thought about his identity: He doesn't want to be a sick man. The rest of the discussion seems frivolous to him-an immense privilege of the healthy. Still, I'm a novelist, and so I pursue it.

Nancy Horan

#39. Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

Fran Drescher

#40. Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

Kenneth Oppel

#41. Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

Neal Shusterman

#42. Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick.

Louise Gornall

#43. Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.

Steven Magee

#44. I've been sick for so long I don't
remember a time when I wasn't.

Alison G. Bailey

#45. There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Siri Hustvedt

#46. Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.

Steven Magee

#47. It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#48. Maybe humankind was meant to be sick from time to time. Maybe there is something to be learned from illness.

Tade Thompson

#49. Intense fatigue or illness may also weaken the control of the cortex. Hence we find tired or sick persons responding to threats with a greater degree of undifferentiated anxiety. In psychoanalytic terms, we would speak of this as regression.

Rollo May

#50. I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Ornette Coleman

#51. Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

Donna Goddard

#52. The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Ann Radcliffe

#53. I have a lot of mental illness right now. Half of my energy goes into taking care of myself. I've been daydreaming about shaving my head fully 'cause then I'll look as sick as I feel.

Brandon Stanton

#54. The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

John Green

#55. So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution.

Thomas Szasz

#56. I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life.

Sylvia Plath

#57. A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Guy De Maupassant

#58. My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Ellen Wilkinson

#59. Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Nhat Hanh

#60. Some people think that mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something you have choice over.

David Levithan