Quotes tagged ‘sickness’

(45 total)

“Trump's been trying to pretend the problem doesn't exist.”

“Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh, twitter.com

“I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, imdb.com

“All I can say is I wish my eyelids had asked permission before sacrificing themselves to keep the peace.”

— Ibby Caputo, nytimes.com

“Do we care for people when they're sick because we actually care about them? Or do we care for them because when our time comes, we want someone to care for us?”

— Tom Fontana, Augustus Hill, Harold Perrineau, imdb.com

“Me, I can't help myself. I see an opportunity, I take it. It's a sickness. Truly.”

— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, John Silver, Luke Arnold, imdb.com

“The city’s sick. Sick in a way I hadn’t realized.”

— John Stephens, James Gordon, Ben McKenzie, imdb.com

“Here's what's gonna happen. One day you're gonna get sick – again. One of your employees is gonna find you curled up in that space blanket, take you to the hospital, hook you up to those machines that beep and whir and hurt. And this time, it will be too much. And you will die there. Alone.”

— Gennifer Hutchison, Jimmy McGill, Bob Odenkirk, imdb.com

“The soul of the world is mortally sick, its courage broken, its ideals tarnished, and the will to live gone; the horizon is hazy, hidden behind burning clouds of destruction, and faith in the dawn of mankind is no more.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org

“She has never heard me whisper into her ear or come up with a witty reply. She has never heard me ask a question or speak my mind, to anyone.”

— Jamison Hill, nytimes.com

“I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.”

— Martha Stewart, marthastewart.com

“I do. Yes, I do. Sick have I become, old and weak... When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm?”

— Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Yoda, Frank Oz, amazon.com

“Medieval medical practitioners believed that chickens could absorb illness. They would rub the birds all over the bodies of the diseased in an attempt to rid them of their sickness.”

— Bruce Zimmerman, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“Left alone in the dismal lobby, I would totter into the creaking elevator and, with a faintly arthritic walk, limp to my suite of one room, there to fortify myself with a glass of Dr. Brown’s Celery Tonic double.”

— Groucho Marx, amazon.com

“As I lay there on the bed with a hot-water bottle on my dogs, an electric blanket covering my hairy chest and a half dozen assorted antibiotics tossing around inside of me, I wondered what the hell the world was coming to.”

— Groucho Marx, amazon.com

“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”

— Joseph Stalin, en.wikiquote.org

“I think the best part of a relationship is when you're sick. And the best part of being sick is when you're in a relationship. And if I was to get married, you know all those vows; for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse, all I need is the sickness. That, to me, is the most important one.…”

— Bill Masters, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“If a Latin player is sick, they said it is all in their head. I'm sick of these people who make these statements. They call me 'Jake.' It is Roberto ... Roberto Walker Clemente.”

— Roberto Clemente, en.wikiquote.org

“If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.”

— Alexander Fleming, amazon.com

“Grey dawn was seeping into the sick room. I lay in the middle of the bed with my hands outside the bedclothes, looking straight ahead. Now I was in a pact with God. I had promised to serve him if I survived, if he allowed me to escape the tuberculosis. Now I could never be as before.”

— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org