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Sickness Quotes - Page 3

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 100, 1799.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.73

civilization is a transient sickness.

Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.158, Stanford University Press

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.136, Penguin

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.

William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.77, Verso

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.115, Nathaniel Hawthorne