Sick Quotes: Words of Comfort and Healing

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

Martin Luther, Professor

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

Woody Allen, Director

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Civilization is what makes you sick"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"

John Masefield, Poet

"I thought it was terrible. I don't know who to believe. Williams was very loyal and honest. Nobody could ever say different. Sometimes, that got him into a lot of trouble. But after he died and they cut his head off, that made me sick"

Curt Gowdy, Celebrity

"I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible"

Lana Turner, Actress

"My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it"

Eminem, Musician

"In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them"

Maurice de Vlaminck, Artist

"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, Musician

"A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs"

Barry McCaffrey, Soldier

"I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it"

Campbell Scott, Actor

"God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one"

Honus Wagner, Athlete

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same"

Angus Young, Musician

"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick"

Sophocles, Author

"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick"

Sophocles, Author

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space"

Robert Frost, Poet

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Its healthy to be sick sometimes"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"When sages commend excess, Desire is sick"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick"

William James, Philosopher

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