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Sick Quotes - Page 10

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

I attempt from love's sickness to fly.

Henry Purcell (1999). “Fifteen Songs and Arias: For Contralto or Baritone with English Text (Vocal Score)”, p.34, Alfred Music

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Dallaway (1817). “The Works: I. Letters, during her residence abroad, 1746-1756”, p.151

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”