Sickness Quotes
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
alain badiou— From Plato, Our Dear Plato!. Magazine littéraire, no. 447, November 2005.
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.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
Charles Lamb— Essays of Elia,'The Convalescent' (1823)
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.
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.
thomas campion— 1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.
Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.
John Cleveland— "The Antiplatonic" (1653)
It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help.
carl i. hagen— Comment on the basis of the so-called immigrant account by MP Øystein Hedstrøm, election campaign in 1995, reproduced in the book Kong Carl (p. 267).
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today.... We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.
norman mailer— "Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 (Winter 1959); republished in Conversations with Norman Mailer (1988) edited by J. Michael Lennon.
Return unto thy rest, my soul,From all the wanderings of thy thought,From sickness unto death made whole,Safe through a thousand perils brought.
james montgomery— Rest for the Soul.
Baudelaire is the great symbol of l’art pour l’art (art for the sake of art): sickness as beauty. Baudelaire is thus Liberalism in literature, disease as a principle of Life, crisis as health, morbidity as soul-life, disintegration as purpose.
Charles Baudelaire— Francis Parker Yockey, Imperium (1948): "Liberalism," Part II, ISBN 0-911038-10-8, p. 217
Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
aleister crowley— Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli
Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke.
john donne— No. 10, line 9.
On this present, fallen earth there is sorrow, suffering, sickness and death. On the new earth there will be life everlasting life, unending health, joy, and gladness forever and ever.
paul enns— p. 112 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
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))
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
indro montanelli— cited in tv Ippocrate, Rai News, 13 giugno 2010
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not that one endures.
friedrich nietzsche— Sec 910 (Autumn 1887, KSA 12.513).
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 (1895))
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
joseph stalin— As quoted in The Memoirs of former Stalin's secretary (1992) by Boris Bazhanov [Saint Petersburg] (in Russian)
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health .
Lionel Trilling— Art and Neurosis
A will is often executed suddenly in a last sickness, and sometimes in the article of death . . . consequently the time of the execution is the critical moment which requires guard and protection.
— Lord Camden, Doe d. Hindson v. Hersey, 4 Burn's Ecc. L. 27 ; 1 Jarman on Wills, 70.
The person of the King is by law made up of two bodies: a natural body, subject to infancy, infirmity, sickness and death; and a political body, powerful, perfect and perpetual.
— Bagshaw, Rights of the Crown of England, 29.
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.
— Book II, line 195.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 67 (6 November 1750)
Temp'rate in every place, abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either, he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
George Crabbe— George Crabbe, Borough, Letter XVII, line 198.
I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come; It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, 'Thus diest thou.'
— Laertes, scene vii
This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise.
— Hotspur, scene i
In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.
— Virgil, in the Georgics (29 BC), Book III, lines 66
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))
