#Sickness Quotes

“The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.”

“Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.”

“It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.”

“We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.”

“'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.”

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

“While the sick man has life, there is hope.”

“To the sick, while there is life there is hope.[Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]”

“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”

“To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.”

“The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.”

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

“In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.”

“If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.”

“I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.”

“The very best approach to medicine is, "Well, I see your physical body is sick, what's been bothering you? What are you worried about? What are you angry about? What are you frustrated about?" Because that is what is at the root of all of this. And then say, "Let it go, let it go, let it go." That's the message, and if they could hear you and do that, then they would all be well right away.”

“Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms -- so familiar at this time of year -- can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.”

“I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.”

“A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.”

“There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.”

“Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.”

“Modern man is sick because he is not whole.”

“Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.”

“There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.”