Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old being sick quotes, being sick sayings, and being sick proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.Steve Maraboli
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The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.Joseph Brodsky
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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.G.K. Chesterton
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Being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses.Megan Boyle
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Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.Amit Kalantri
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.Samuel Butler
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.Lord Chesterfield
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.Marcel Proust
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Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.Charles Simmons
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Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.Robert Burton
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sickBen Jonson
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.Charles Lamb
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The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.Vladimir Lenin
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.Oscar Wilde
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For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.Mother Goose
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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.Henry David Thoreau
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I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.Fannie Lou Hamer
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Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.Anne Bronte
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.Florence Nightingale
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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.Arthur Rubinstein
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A bowl of warmth, a soft face, a new day. Some get-well thoughts sent your way. Feel better soon.unknown
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The treatment is really a cooperative of a trinity--the patient, the doctor and the inner doctor.Ralph Bircher
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If just knowing that someone cares about you helps the healing process...then you should be feeling better already.unknown
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Try not to get overwhelmed by the full scope of your recovery instead look at it one day at a time. Right now you just have to get through today, when that seems impossible know that I'm just a phone call away.unknown
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.Orison Swett Marden
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Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.Henry David Thoreau
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.Oscar Wilde
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty wellRuth Carlisle
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A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prisonFrancis Bacon
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A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germJohn Steinbeck
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on footDutch Proverb
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Sometimes I get the feeling that aspirin companies are sponsoring my headachesTerri Guillemets
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It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with itEpictetus.
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As you rest and heal, know that you are thought of warmly and wished a quick recovery.unknown
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Give yourself whatever gifts of time and rest you need to feel better - and know that you're surrounded by caring thoughts and prayers and heartfelt wishes. Rest easy. Get well.unknown
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.George Bernard Shaw
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.Finley Peter Dunne
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The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Henry David Thoreau
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The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.Tony Snow
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That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.John Green
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The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.Sydney Madwed
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.Karen Duffy
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A faithful friend is the medicine of life.Bible
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Every human being is the author of his own health and disease.Buddha
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Always laugh when you can...it is a cheap medicine.Lord Byron
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Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.Alan Cohen
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Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind.Mary Baker Eddy
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.Khalil Gibran
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.Mark Twain
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I’m so mean I make medicine sick!Muhammad Ali
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My mother had morning sickness after I was born.Rodney Dangerfield
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You can’t have healing without sickness.T.D. Jakes
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It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.Michael Moore
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When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.Stuart Scott
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.Felix Frankfurter
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Some remedies are worse than the disease.Publilius Syrus
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Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.Emory Austin
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.Hubert H. Humphrey
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.Eleanor Roosevelt
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There are two kinds of people, those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.Louis Dudek
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Prayer is an act of love, words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.Saint Teresa of Avila
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Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.Susan Sontag
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Health is not valued till sickness comes.Thomas Fuller
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.Martin Luther
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Nurses, one of the few blessings of being ill.Sara Moss-Wolfe
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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.unknown
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Symptoms, then are in reality nothing but the cry from suffering organs.Jean-Martin Charcot
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I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.Mick McCarthy
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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.Charles Dickens
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There's nothing the matter with being sick that getting well can't fix.Peg Bracken
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Only do always in health what you have often promised to do when you are sick.Sigismund
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Being sick, have in some measure made me well.William Shakespeare
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A sick man's dreams are often extraordinarily distinct and vivid and extremely life-like.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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All living things were irritable, restless, disturbed; sick without being sick; sad without being sad; annoyed without any apparent cause for annoyance!John Cowper Powys
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I am not sick, I am not well. My quondam dreams are shot to hell.Dorothy Parker
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Thousands of them sick and crying. 'Cause when it bumps, it's really very sore. Lascelles Abercrombie
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Forget about cancer that is inside and how sick I really am.Because I am long from done on this earth and am as silly as ever but still say yes sir and no ma'am.Buffy Sammons
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You missed it when you pay more attention to the damaged car in the mechanic shop than the sick human being in the hospital.Israelmore Ayivor
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If you feel sick just be sick.Chris (Simpsons Artist)
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Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love, but even the most advanced physician cannot prescribe it as medicine.Suzy Kassem