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Sickness Quotes

Reflections on illness, healing, and finding hope through hardship.

This page brings together candid reflections on sickness, from the physical toll of pregnancy complications to broader musings on how illness tests the human spirit. Related themes continue in God Quotes.

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that...

Quotes by Henry B. Eyring

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal....

Quotes by Heidi Murkoff

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

Quotes by Heidi Murkoff

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.

Quotes by Georges Rouault

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

Quotes by Frederica Mathewes-Green

Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

Quotes by Florence Nightingale

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

Quotes by Federico Fellini

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...

Quotes by Evita Peron

My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

Quotes by Ellen G. White

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.

Quotes by Edmund Waller

'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to...

Quotes by E. Joseph Cossman

Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods...

Quotes by Diana DeGette

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.

Quotes by Deepak Chopra

'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even...

Quotes by Corey Taylor

I didn't want to be one of those people who was resentful. The moment you start saying to people that their lives must be miserable because they're sick, you give their sickness value over them.

Quotes by Claire Wineland

I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.

Quotes by Cheryl Hines

I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a sign of weakness, of sin, of disobedience.

Quotes by Caroline Fraser

I don't take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there's some sickness with people like that.

Quotes by Burt Reynolds

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of sickness do these quotes cover?
They range from the physical strain of pregnancy complications to broader reflections on illness as part of the human condition.
Do any quotes offer comfort during sickness?
Yes, one speaks directly to hope as essential during poverty, sickness, and hardship, treating hope as the one thing that makes suffering bearable.
Is childhood described as a kind of sickness here?
One quote playfully calls childhood a disease people eventually grow out of, using sickness as a metaphor rather than a literal diagnosis.
Are these quotes meant to be medical advice?
No, they are personal and reflective statements about living with or recovering from illness, not medical guidance.
Where can I find more quotes on related life themes?
See God Quotes for faith-centered reflections or Death Quotes for related themes on mortality.

Some lines treat sickness almost philosophically, calling childhood itself a passing affliction, while others lean on hope to get through hard seasons. For more on life's later stages, visit Age Quotes or Death Quotes.