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

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

Henry Ford, Businessman

"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

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

Woody Allen, Director

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

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

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

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"Film lovers are sick people"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"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

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Robert Frost, Poet

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Civilization is what makes you sick"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"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

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

Eminem, Musician

"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

"What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed"

Brooke Shields, Actress

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

Lana Turner, Actress

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

Maurice de Vlaminck, Artist

"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

"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

"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

"Its healthy to be sick sometimes"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"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

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"A Hospital is no place to be sick"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign"

George W. Bush, President

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

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis"

Brad Henry, Politician

"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

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

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation"

Frank Iero, Musician

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