#sickness

My mother had morning sickness after I was born. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#born #had #i #i was born #morning

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#conditional #greatest #known #man #self-esteem

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#books #emotions #master #presents #repeats

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#healthy #like #longer #question #sickness

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#always #ashamed #back #back to school #behavior

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#cannot #content #desire #each #fictions

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ↗

— John Cheever

#fifty #fifty percent #homesick #homesickness #nothing

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. ↗

— Walter Rudolf Hess

#health #his #human #indeed #just

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#death #death-and-dying #disease #malaria #sickness

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#become #callousness #cheapen #child #common