sickness quotes

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.