"A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace."
Read quote
10 likes
Sick quotes
Sick
1.5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Sick
Browse quotes that often appear alongside sick — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Sick quotes (page 7 of 73)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I'm always so sick of myself after a show."
Read quote
10 likes
"I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy"
Read quote
10 likes
"The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?"
Read quote
10 likes
"Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do."
Read quote
9 likes
"Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach."
Read quote
9 likes
"The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist."
Read quote
9 likes
"When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive."
Read quote
9 likes
"The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick."
Read quote
9 likes
"God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around."
Read quote
9 likes
"I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays."
Read quote
9 likes
"Before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol. It's true. Well, they don't want you to get an infection, and you can see their point. They don't want some guy go to hell and be sick."
Read quote
9 likes
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
Read quote
9 likes
"Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services."
Read quote
9 likes
"The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell"
Read quote
9 likes
"Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick."
Read quote
9 likes
"Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die."
Read quote
9 likes
"Man, I'm sick of doubt."
Read quote
9 likes
"The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick."
Read quote
9 likes
"However capable and skillful an individual may be, left alone, he or she will not survive. When we are sick or very young or very old, we must depend on the support of others. There is no significant division between us and other people, because our basic natures are the same. If we wish to ensure everyone's peace and happiness, we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings."
Read quote
8 likes