Sickness quotes
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"Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all."
"When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick."
"Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?"
"Education is suffering from narration sickness."
"Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other."
"We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness."
"This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends."
"Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness."
"My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things."
"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."
"Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness."
"Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold."
"The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well"
"What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward."
"It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;""
"No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul."
"In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew."
"Make sickness itself a prayer."
"There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'"
"It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested."
