Quotes about sick
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“Look, I need to tell you something,' I continued. The words came stumbling out of me. 'I couldnt stand it if… I dont want you to---'
Percy?' she said. 'You look like you're going to be sick.'
And that's how I felt.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly."
No, I'm not," said Ani.
Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Girl, Thinking

“We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck.
You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Desire

Source: Dark Desire

Love, Making love

“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

God, Friendship, Disappointment, Question

“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.”

Thomas Bernhard book Gargoyles

Source: Gargoyles

Sadness

“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked;”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter to Fanny Knight (1816-03-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Context: He and I should not in the least agree, of course, in our ideas of novels and heroines. Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked; but there is some very good sense in what he says, and I particularly respect him for wishing to think well of all young ladies; it shows an amiable and a delicate mind. And he deserves better treatment than to be obliged to read any more of my works.

Perfection

“As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Life, Death, Health

“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”

Michael Pollan book Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

People

“I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“… since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“Shigure: "That's lovely. She’s so… how shall I say it? By putting it into words I'm afraid the nobility of it all would only be obscured."
Yuki: "Of what?"
Shigure: "You know, she's so spunky!"
Kyo: "You sick bastard!”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

Love

“You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Women, Men

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions”

Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary

“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkdeath

Love

“You aren't sick & unhappy
only alive & stuck with it.”

Margaret Atwood book Power Politics

Source: Power Politics

“Film lovers are sick people.”

Francois Truffaut (1932–1984) film director

People, Lovers

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Life, School, Home, Parting

“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly
off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”

Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer

Source: Candy

People, Joy, Flying, Madness

“I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot."
Fang”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Way, Feeling

“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.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Men, Intelligence

“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

Pain, Beauty, Dreams, Hope

“You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.”

Louise Rennison book Withering Tights

Source: Withering Tights

“The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.”

Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994) American journalist

Life, Way, Study, Dead

“I am sick with caring.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Second Series, p. 186
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)

People

“I care so much I’m sick.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“First Emma. Now Thad. Regin was sick and tired of non-evil vampiric creatures messing with her millennium's worth of scathing animosity for their species…”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Evil

“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard… Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Certain Girls

Love, Life, People, Truth

“All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Jerk, Cats

“Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.”

Florence King (1936–2016) American writer

Source: Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

“The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

“a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us
sick.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Personality

“Always do what you're afraid to do.
…
I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick.
I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Variant: I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak -Cady Sinclair
Source: We Were Liars

Thinking, Strong

“You're not sick you're just in love.”

Irving Berlin (1888–1989) American composer

Love

“The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.”

Mircea Eliade book Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

Source: Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Life, Death, People, Time

“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.”

Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep

Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 25

Women, Alcohol

“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:”

William Blake book Songs of Experience

The Sick Rose, plate 39.
Source: Songs of Experience (1794)
Context: p>O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.</p

Art, Night

“I'm sick of my own romanticism!”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry & June

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

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Children, Sleep

“It wouldn't be fair to ask you to be around me when I'm so sick of being around me.”

David Levithan book Another Day

Source: Another Day

“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.”

Edith Wharton book Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Life, Stupidity, World, Guy

“Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

Money, Change

“Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: One Hundred Names

Love, Fools, Change

“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Books, Reading

“I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up."

—Ruth Mendenberg”

Carol Matas book After the War

Source: After the War

Feeling

“Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don’t care. I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Lie to Katniss about the rebellion so she doesn’t do anything crazy.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 118)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

People, Lie, Lying

“Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Strong

“Being here? With you? I've met my subconscious, and he's not that sick.”

Jim Butcher book Ghost Story

Source: Ghost Story

“Sick and perverted always appeals to me.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

“Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.”

Chuck Barris (1929–2017) American game show creator, producer, and host

Source: You and Me, Babe

Feeling, Effort

“It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick.
-pg.68”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Boy

“Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Life

“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Hell

“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Death

“Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God (1994)

World, Way, Feeling

“Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Understanding, Personality

“Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Blue Shoe

Hostility

“you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands… you make me sick… show me your bankai and I will crush it… I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees… I will never let you say those words to Rukia again…
~Ichigo Kurosaki”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Forgiveness

“I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian”

Leslie Feinberg Stone Butch Blues

Source: Stone Butch Blues

World, Thinking

“You don't call Acheron 'babe.' (Valerius)
You don't call Acheron 'babe' because… well, that's just sick. But I call him 'babe' all the time. (Tabitha)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Time

“I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

Thinking

“Health food makes me sick.”

Calvin Trillin (1935) American journalist

Cookbook Corner: Healthy meals from health care workers, The Land Online, Sarah Johnson, 2008-10-17, 2008-12-19 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_home_hearth/local_story_297150955.html,

Health, Food

“I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Unfaithfulness, Faith

“She pulled away. "That doesn't make any sense."
"Neither does this," he said, "but I don't care. I'm sick of trying to pretend I can live without you. Don't you understand that? Can't you see it's killing me?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Understanding, Sense

“I held her
wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred,
centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and
sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted.
there was no creature living as foul as I
and all my poems were
false.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Learning, Falseness

“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Heart

“It is important for human beings and animals to drink healthy water. Chemically purified water, chlorinated or ozonated water is no longer living and healthy water. Good water, full of life and rich in energy, is synonymous with strong and healthy life. Bad water is synonymous with sick life. No water is the same as no life.”

Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor

Alick Bartholomew: The Schauberger Keys

Life, Drink, Strong, Water

“Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence — helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.”

Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter

As quoted in "Warren Zevon Dies" by Andrew Dansby, in Rolling Stone (8 September 2003) https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/warren-zevon-dies-250309/

“I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.”

Euripidés Electra

Electra (413 BC)

Hunger, Health, Wealth

“Shortly after I was offered the role, I realized that although it would be possible to replace all of the members of the staff and all of the other actors, it would not be possible to replace me. I also realized that if I didn't go into work because I was sick, none of the members of the special effects staff would be able to do their work. All of this gave me a tremendous sense of pride.”

Haruo Nakajima (1929–2017) Japanese actor

As quoted by David Milner, "Haruo Nakajima Interview" http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversations.com/nakajima.htm, Kaiju Conversations (March 1995)

Sense

“Yay, Old Uns’ Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord’nary, but it din’t master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.”

David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas

"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286
Cloud Atlas (2004)

Hunger, Heart

“I bought a $7 pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian

Strategic Grill Locations

“On this present, fallen earth there is sorrow, suffering, sickness and death. On the new earth there will be life—everlasting life, unending health, joy, and gladness forever and ever.”

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 112

Life, Death, Health, Suffering

“You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.”

Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 154.

Christ, Housing

“There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.”

David Fincher (1962) American film director

A Talk With David Fincher (1999)

Housing

“Oh wearisome Condition of Humanity!
Born under one law, to another bound:
Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound:
What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws?
Passion and reason, self-division cause.
Is it the mark, or Majesty of Power
To make offences that it may forgive?”

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554–1628) English politician

Chorus Sacerdotum.
Mustapha (1609)

Law, Forgiveness, Nature, Passion

“I must confess that my estimate of Lovecraft would not have pleased his most ardent admirers. The view I expressed in that book was that, while Lovecraft was distinctly a creative genius in his own way, his pessimism should not be taken too seriously; that it was the pessimism of a sick recluse, and had about it an element of rassentiment, a kind of desire to take revenge on the world that rejected him. In short, Lovecraft was a 19th century romantic, born in the wrong time. Most men of genius dislike their own age, but the really great ones impose their own vision on the age. The weak ones turn away into a world of gloomy fantasy.”

Colin Wilson book The Mind Parasites

Source: The Mind Parasites (1967), p. 2

Men, Books, Age, World

“When Thatcher ran for prime minister she said — remember this, this is the Iron Lady — she said, "The British national health care system is safe in my hands." She wasn't going to take on health care, because she knew once you have people getting free health care from the government, you can't take it away from them. And the reason is because most people don't get sick, and so free health care is just that, free health care, until you get sick. Then, if you get sick and you don't get health care, you die and you don't vote. It's actually a pretty clever system. Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you. That's how it works.”

Rick Santorum (1958) American politician

Young Americans for Freedom event, Reagan Ranch, , quoted in

People, Health

“People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable for them to love that which, as an untiring Proteus, is ready at any moment to convert itself into the particular object of our fickle desires and manifold needs. Thus every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on. Consequently, all these are only … relatively good. Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.”

Arthur Schopenhauer book Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 347
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

Love, Women, Money, People

“I’m sick of hearing how far we’ve come. I’m sick of hearing how in some cases women are superseding men, progressing to positions of middle and upper management. Above all, I’m sick of hearing about the pipeline, about the path to the top supposedly thick with women who will, in the fullness of time, be rewarded for their patience and virtue. The following figures speak for themselves: Three percent of Fortune 500 companies are headed by women; 16.8 percent of members of the U. S. Congress are women; 7 percent of tenured engineering faculty in four-year institutions are women. The fact is that so far as leadership is concerned, women in nearly every realm are hardly any better off than they were a generation ago.”

Barbara Kellerman (1939) American academic

Barbara Kellerman in Harvard Business Review; Cited in " Quote of the week: Barbara Kellerman http://theweek.com/articles/494754/quote-week-barbara-kellerman," at theweek.com, April 30, 2010.

Women, Men, Time, Patience

“B17 is becoming more difficult to get because the FDA is cracking down on people dealing with B17 because, after all, doctors don't get any money off of this - it's a vitamin. And they [doctors] make a lot of money when you're sick, they don't make any money when you are well. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil.”

Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist

27 June 2003
Truth Radio

Love, Money, People, Evil

“How old now?'
'Thirty. Downhill to the dark boat across the Styx. Probably be sick over the side in Charon's ferry too…”

Lindsey Davis book The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

“Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.”

Frank McCourt book 'Tis

§10
'Tis (2000)

Angels

“Why do I always bang my head against the wall
So sick and tired of doing, doing everything wrong”

Beef Bonanza punk rock musician in The Bones

Flatline Fever
Lyrics

“Is it any surprise, then, that Jesus felt such intense compassion for the poor and marginalized? That he constantly asked his disciples to care for the poor, the sick, the forgotten, the stranger? He was one of these throwaway people, and he lived among them for 30 years before his public ministry began. Christians tend to see Jesus’ commands to care for the poor as divine. And they were — Jesus was fully divine. But they also came from his human experience. He was fully human as well. I’m always amazed by people who feel they can be Christian without caring for the poor. Not only did Jesus command us to do this, Jesus himself was from this class. When God chose to join us, he joined us in Nazareth, to make sure that we wouldn’t forget.”

James Martin (priest) (1960) Jesuit priest and writer

"How can you be Christian without caring for the poor?" (2017)

God, People, Feeling, Forgetting

“Somebody out there, show your compassion, come and kill me. Cut me free and watch me slowly shrivel, or slice me up and flush me down a toilet. Any way you like, I don't mind. Come on! You do it for your youngest children, you do it for your sick old parents. Come and do it for me. I can tell you'd like it. Don't be nervous, lovers! You'll never be found out, if that's what's holding you back: I'll stay silent to the end, be it swift or slow. Come on, people! I'm totally defenceless. Hurry up! Don't be shy. You have the right. You made me, you created me, so you know you have the right.”

Greg Egan (1961) Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer

The Demon's Passage http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Demons%20Passage, published in Eidolon (Winter 1991) <br class="br">Fiction

Children, People, Way, Lovers

“Afore this time I had great longing and desire of God’s gift to be delivered of this world and of this life. For oftentimes I beheld the woe that is here, and the weal and the bliss that is being there: (and if there had been no pain in this life but the absence of our Lord, methought it was some-time more than I might bear;) and this made me to mourn, and eagerly to long. And also from mine own wretchedness, sloth, and weakness, me liked not to live and to travail, as me fell to do.
And to all this our courteous Lord answered for comfort and patience, and said these words: Suddenly thou shalt be taken from all thy pain, from all thy sickness, from all thy distress and from all thy woe. And thou shalt come up above and thou shalt have me to thy meed, and thou shalt be fulfilled of love and of bliss. And thou shalt never have no manner of pain, no manner of misliking, no wanting of will; but ever joy and bliss without end. What should it then aggrieve thee to suffer awhile, seeing that it is my will and my worship?”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

The Fifteenth Revelation, Chapter 63

Love, Life, God, Pain

“Though it makes me sick to do so without my writers, there are more than a hundred people whose financial well-being depends on our show. It is time to go back to work.”

Jimmy Kimmel (1967) American talk show host and comedian

On returning back to work at Jimmy Kimmel Live! during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike — reported in San Mateo County Times staff (December 19, 2007) "Here is your pregnant Spears", San Mateo County Times.

People, Time, Dependency

“It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back; so if the man wakened without his soul, he would fall sick. If it is absolutely necessary to rouse a sleeper, it must be done very gradually, to allow the soul time to return.”

James Frazer book The Golden Bough

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 18, The Perils of the Soul.

People, Soul, Time

“Psychology is familiar with the “eternal victim,” who exploits this position for disguised aggressions. Also belonging to this category, in a broader sense, are those permanent losers as well as medical and political hypochondriacs who lament that conditions are so terrible that it is a great sacrifice on their part not to kill themselves or emigrate. On the German Left, not least of all under the influence of the sociologized schema of the victim, a certain type of renegade has emerged who feels that it is a dirty trick to have to live in this land without summer and without oppositional forces. Nobody can say that such a viewpoint does not know what it is talking about. Its mistake is that it remains blind to itself. For the accusation becomes bound to misery and magnifies it under the subterfuge of unsuspecting critical observations. With the obstinacy of a Sophist, in aggressive self-reification, many a “critical” consciousness refuses to become healthier than the sick whole.”

Peter Sloterdijk (1947) German philosopher

Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 58

Feeling, Sense, Summer, Parting

“If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.”

Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 594.

Pain, Soul, Light, Christ

“If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I’d go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Letter to Blanche Jennings (9 October 1908), Letters of D.H. Lawrence (1979), James T. Boulton, ed., as quoted in The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 (1992) by John Carey; also quoted in "Art for the Masses : The Death of Culture & the Culture of Death" http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/14.7docs/14-7pg22.html by Ralph McInery in Touchstone magazine (September 2001)

Smile, Way

“Many thanks for your kind care for my health; I certainly have not been well for many weeks, and about a week ago I was very poorly. I have had a good deal of fever at times, and indifferent nights; but I am considerably better now and am recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough — black and white, and every wrong colour. I must not depend upon being ever very blooming again. Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Letter to Fanny Knight (1817-03-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Life, Health, Time, Dependency