Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
~By Ruth Pitter ~
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
~By Vance Havner ~
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
~By Albert Ellis ~
And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.
~By David Duchovny ~
On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.
~By John James Audubon ~
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
~By John Cheever ~
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.
~By Mick Mars ~
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
~By Novalis ~
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
~By William Golding ~
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
~By John Hersey ~
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
~By Aeschylus ~
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
~By Robert James Graves ~
My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
~By Gustav Klimt ~
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
~By Spike Milligan ~
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.
~By George Woodcock ~
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
~By James Wolfe ~
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
~By Edvard Munch ~
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
~By Walter Rudolf Hess ~
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
~By Edmund Waller ~
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
~By Georges Rouault ~
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
~By Avicenna ~
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
~By Albert Speer ~
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
~By Evita Peron ~
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
~By Josh Billings ~
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
~By Robert Frost ~
That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
~By Max Muller ~
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
~By Johnny Depp ~
We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
~By Hernando Cortez ~
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
~By Jackie Mason ~
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
~By Saint Ignatius ~
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
~By Anita Roddick ~
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
~By Pamela Anderson ~
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
~By Marianne Moore ~
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
~By John Donne ~
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