I am sick – if I should die what would become of me? We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. I must improve my time better. I must prepare myself for the great profession I have purposed to undertake.
Sick Quotes
Once Antigonus was told his son was ill, and went to see him. At the door he met some young beauty. Going in, he sat down by the bed and took his pulse. “The fever,” said Demetrius, “has just left me.” “Oh, yes,” replied the father, “I met it going out at the door.”
The purse of the patient protracts his cure.
Be not sick too late, nor well too soon.
There is a healthy way to be ill.
Very few busy people are ill, mostly because they don’t have time to think about sickness.
I’m tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It’s the only disease I know of that we’re spending hundreds of millions of dollar a year to spread.
Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life, and ultimately death.
Under the weather.
A sick person needs “… the absence of pain and the presence of family.”
