Welcome to our collection of Sick Quotes, where we delve into the depths of human experience, capturing the essence of illness and the resilience it often brings forth. Illness, whether physical or mental, is a universal phenomenon that touches each of our lives at some point. In these moments of vulnerability, we often find ourselves grappling with profound thoughts and emotions, seeking solace and understanding amidst the turmoil.
Through the power of words, we aim to encapsulate the myriad feelings and insights that accompany sickness. From moments of despair to glimpses of hope, these quotes serve as reminders of the strength inherent in the human spirit. Whether you’re battling an illness yourself, supporting a loved one, or simply seeking inspiration, our collection offers a poignant reflection on the shared human experience of sickness.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes on this topic, ready to be explored, pondered upon, and shared. Feel free to copy them, pair them with images, or adorn them with stylish fonts as you see fit. Let these words serve as beacons of light in the darkness, guiding us through the trials of illness with grace and resilience.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. Benjamin Franklin
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. John Steinbeck
Civilization is what makes you sick. Paul Gauguin
I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. Kurt Cobain
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
Even in high school, I’d tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn’t too happy. She’d say, ‘Think about this.’ And I’d always end up getting back in the pool. Michael Phelps
I’m not a comedian. And I’m not sick. The world is sick, and I’m the doctor. I’m a surgeon with a scalpel for false values. Lenny Bruce
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick. Muhammad Ali
Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath. Rohini Nilekani
After the scarlet fever and the whooping cough, I remember I started to get mad about it all… I went through the stage of asking myself, ‘Wilma, what is this existence all about? Is it about being sick all the time? It can’t be.’ So I started getting angry about things, fighting back in a new way with a vengeance. Wilma Rudolph
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. Oscar Wilde
Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted. Hasan Minhaj
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick. Friedrich Nietzsche
You can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It’s up to you to protect and maintain your body’s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live. Andrew Weil
If I’m not living from my heart, I get sick. A. J. Langer
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode. Barack Obama
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. Brene Brown
I don’t even drink! I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year’s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze – I’m always the designated driver. Kim Kardashian
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. Martin Luther
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it. Lyndon B. Johnson
I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion – not necessarily when I’m expecting it. You just have to cope with it – take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform. Helen Mirren
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. Don Miguel Ruiz
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. P. T. Barnum
The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick. Daniel Kraft
The fundamental dogma of Modernism – that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow – has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick. Marcel Wanders
My mother died, and I couldn’t stand to look at her bedroom any more. I’d get sick. I’ve always been a momma’s boy. Little Richard
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Maya Angelou
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. William James
All I want is a gentleman. I’m sick to bloody death of bastards. Katie Price
A hospital is no place to be sick. Samuel Goldwyn
If you’re making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person. Marina and the Diamonds
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever. Marilyn Monroe
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. Chief Joseph
Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel. John Wycliffe
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. Erma Bombeck
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time. Jim Carrey
Covid is likely to persist once its pandemic phase has passed and circulate each winter alongside the flu. Even after more of us contract coronavirus infection and develop immunity to it or even after an effective vaccine arrives, some people will still get very sick. Scott Gottlieb
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good. Daniel Craig
Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. Tracy Kidder
To me, supplements are a necessity, not a luxury. I think of them as medicine: Instead of asking a doctor to prescribe me a drug when I’m ill, I’d rather take something that can help me avoid getting sick in the first place. Laird Hamilton
As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ‘Pears like I didn’t do nothing but pray for ole master. ‘Oh, Lord, convert ole master;’ ‘Oh, dear Lord, change dat man’s heart, and make him a Christian.’ Harriet Tubman
Politics makes me sick. William Howard Taft
I’m just sick of the way things are. We’re in an age in which we can’t live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy… What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. Jose Mujica
To me, ‘X Factor’ is like Vegas. Fake, twisted, but kind of wonderful. Maybe I’m sick, but I find the whole thing quite funny sometimes. Charli XCX
I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick. Billie Eilish
A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well. Henny Youngman
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. Ivan Illich
My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it. Eminem
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it. Henry Ford
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I’m consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. Courtney Love
Obesity is the biggest disease of mankind – bigger than even cancer. Your self-confidence is low and you become mentally sick. Jackky Bhagnani
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be. Princess Diana
I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same. Angus Young
I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way. St. Jerome
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man. Dwight L. Moody
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Khalil Gibran
When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you’re hungry, we’ll feed you. If you’re homeless, we’ll house you. If you’re too poor to be sick, we’ll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost. John Kennedy
Even when I’m sick and depressed, I love life. Arthur Rubinstein
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you’re healthy, if you don’t get sick much, if you don’t go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It’s just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that. Rush Limbaugh
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered. B. R. Ambedkar
It’s been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn’t learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there’s a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. William Hurt
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. J. D. Salinger
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Jesus Christ
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. Saint Teresa of Avila
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’m sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual. Gavin Newsom
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. Sophocles
Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge. Michael Jordan
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing. Florence Nightingale
You’re not sick you’re just in love. Irving Berlin
Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly. Jan Schakowsky
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It’s a very sick society that rejects pleasure. Marjane Satrapi
Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate. Dolly Parton
I don’t take vacations. I don’t get sick. I don’t observe major holidays. I’m a jackhammer. Jim Harbaugh
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Fannie Lou Hamer
A mom can’t afford to be sick. Tamra Davis
The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy – to heal, as it is termed. Samuel Hahnemann
I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later. Mitch Hedberg
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun. Flip Wilson
I’m sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there’s a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it. Russell Crowe
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I’m sick or in good health, whether I’m in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am. Brennan Manning
Film lovers are sick people. Francois Truffaut
Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when. Neal Katyal
When you’re sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom. Trisha Yearwood
I’m sick of the treadmill. Andrea Martin
I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don’t realize this until you’re getting sober but the reason why you’re depressed all the time is it’s the drugs that are depressing you. Steven Adler
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. George Burns
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. George MacDonald
I’m so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain’t affecting my life at all. Larry the Cable Guy
I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don’t believe that this is it, and then we’re done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I’ve lost someone or I’ve seen a sick child, I’ve had conversations with Him in which I’ve had to ask, ‘How can that be right?’ Melissa McCarthy
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. Georg Groddeck
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. Hubert H. Humphrey
I was sick a lot, and doctors told my grandmother I’d never grow up to be big and strong. Isn’t that ironic? Howie Long
I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child. Beyonce Knowles
A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they’re telling each other to grow and to die; when you’re sick, something’s gone wrong with that conversation. W. Daniel Hillis
It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. Phil McGraw
I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature. Ryuichi Sakamoto
