Quotes about Sickness
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
- St. Augustine
Every Christian should say: 'Have I wealth now? I should prepare for poverty. Have I health now? I should prepare for sickness.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
- Thomas Merton
Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can't do without your fellow humans, and that, when you're with them, they make you sick.
- Aldous Huxley
What was the promise with the head sick?
- F Scott Fitzgerald
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.
- Deepak Chopra
The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal, and this superiority distinguishes him in quite another way than does his erect walk, for it indicates infinite erectness or sublimity, that he is spirit.8 The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal; to be aware of this sickness is the Christian's superiority over the natural man; to be cured of this sickness is the Christian's
- Soren Kierkegaard
There are sick people everywhere, in wheelchairs and on benches. Shelby is embarrassed to be so healthy.
- Alice Hoffman
What you say when the enemy is roaring is very important. Speak victory in the face of defeat, speak peace in the face of fear, speak health in the face of sickness, speak abundance in the face of lack.
- Joel Osteen
They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
- Anonymous
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Anonymous
St. Josemaria diagnosed this tendency to overwork as a sickness of the spirit. That was before the word "workaholism" was coined. St. Josemaria called the condition "professionalitis"— suggesting a corruption of something good.
- Scott Hahn