Sickness Quotes
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Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
Book of Common Prayer— Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal.
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Book of Common Prayer— Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal.
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,The fall of favourites, projects of the great,Of aid mismanagements, taxations new:All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.
Alexander Pope— Lines 449-458.
As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.
George Bernard Shaw— 1903 The Statue. Man and Superman, act 3.
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Calvin Marshall Trillin— 1950 The Liberal Imagination,'Art and Neurosis'.
There are, while human miseries abound,A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,Without one fool or flatterer at your board,Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
john armstrong— Book II, line 195.
Let all thy joys be as the month of May, and all thy days be as a marriage day. Let sorrow, sickness, and a troubled mind be stranger to thee.
Francis Quarles— To a Bride.
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
charles haddon spurgeon— P. 129. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The tree of deepest root is foundLeast willing still to quit the ground;'Twas therefore said by ancient sages,That love of life increased with years.So much, that in our latter stages,When pains grow sharp and sickness rages,The greatest love of life appears.
hester thrale— "Three Warnings", line 1, in Abraham Hayward (ed.) Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (1861) vol. 2, p. 165.
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
anna akhmatova— "Prayer," translated by Judith Hemschemeyer in Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1989)
Haller’s sickness of soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but rather those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
hermann hesse— p. 21 (Steppenwolf (1927))
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas .
Eric Hoffer— Letter to Mrs. Blumberg (27 September 1977)
"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
samuel johnson— Line 255. (Vanity of Human Wishes (1749))
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.
samuel johnson— No. 67 (6 November 1750).
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
Charles Lamb— The Convalescent.
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 12
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
maimonides— Maimonides, Attributed.
A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 192.
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
elizabeth payson prentiss— p. 568. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
— Book of Common Prayer, Solemnization of Matrimony.
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!
— Charles Lamb, in Last Essays of Elia (1833)
Abortion may be sinful or immoral, but it is not the function of the law to enforce the whole of morality. It is difficult to understand what religious or moral principle, what divine or human purpose, is served by compelling underprivileged women to undergo pregnancy for the full term and to bear unsought and frequently unwanted children or to risk sickness or death at the hands of incompetent and frequently lecherous and importunate abortionists. No doubt the fact that the price of maintaining this principle is paid almost exclusively by the poor has delayed its critical examination.
— Norval Morris and Gordon Hawkins, The Honest Politician's Guide to Crime Control, 1970.
There was as much sorrow as joy.... We had lived together as a family of brothers for several years, setting aside some little family squabbles, like most other families, had shared with each other the hardships, dangers, and sufferings incident to a soldier’s life, had sympathized with each other in trouble and in sickness; had assisted in bearing each other’s burdens.... And now we were to be... parted forever.
— Joseph Plumb Martin, a soldier in the Continental Army, on the disbanding of the army, in his memoir, Private Yankee Doodle (published 1830).
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?”
— George Eliot, quoted by J. Russell Perkin in Theology and the Victorian Novel], p.140
sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy."
george ohsawa— p. 77 (Essential Ohsawa - From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics (1994))
sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
warren zevon— Quoted in Andrew Dansby, "Warren Zevon Dies" Rolling Stone (2003-09-08)
sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— F 100 (Notebook F (1776-1779))
sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement . A healthy person is never unhappy.
— George Ohsawa, in Essential Ohsawa : From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom : Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics (1994), p. 77
