57+ Best Being Sick Quotes: Exclusive Selection

If you are sick, you are ill. Sick usually means physically ill, but it can sometimes be used to mean mentally ill. Inspirational being sick quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.

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Famous Being Sick Quotes

I want to sleep until I feel better

It Is healthy to be sick sometimes. Henry David Thoreau.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

Sickness comes on horseback, but departs on foot Dutch Proverb.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music. Amit Kalantri.

Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy.

Being sick feels like you’re wearing someone else’s glasses Megan Boyle.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick Ben Jonson

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick. Joseph Brodsky.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. Charles Lamb

The most poetic thing in the world is not being sick. G.K. Chesterton.

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey. Mick McCarthy

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. Deepak Chopra.

I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired  Fannie Lou Hamer

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. Edvard Munch.

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. Dutch proverb

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 achievement from the second. Louis Dudek

Don’t fear the enemy who attacks you fear the fake friend who hugs you.

It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. Phil McGraw.

The most poetic thing in the world is not being sick. G.K. Chesterton

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things. William Shakespeare

Being sick feels like you’re wearing someone else’s glasses. Megan Boyle

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. Nicolas Chamfort.

The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. Vladimir Lenin

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health. Matthew Walker.

Whenever I start feeling sick, I just stop being sick and be awesome instead

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.

Time will pass; these moods will pass; and I will eventually be myself again.

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.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick. Joseph Brodsky

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austin.

I feel sick. I’m devastated and very angry at the same time. I don’t know what I feel.

Health is not valued till sickness comes. Thomas Fuller.

Treat a sick man with medicine and a sad man with the music. Amit Kalantri

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow. Joseph B. Wirthlin.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. Charles Simmons

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust.

I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can’t breathe. I’m not proud of myself.

Childhood is a disease  a sickness that you grow out of. William Golding.

Being sick is just your body’s way of saying you are too awesome, and you need to slow down, so everyone else can catch up.

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its ‘saucy nuances. Pat Paulsen

The worst thing you can do to a person with an invisible illness is make them feel like they need to prove how sick they are.

I’m sick and tired of people saying that we put out 11 albums that sound exactly the same. Angus Young

The feeling of being sick, but you are not really sick. You are just sad, upset, unhappy. You just feel like laying in bed all day.

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

If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well. Ruth Carlisle

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. Anne Brontë

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

I’m sick and tired of people who presume to speak for the disabled. The question of what is off limits should not be defined by some special interest group. The audience, the readers, should decide. John Callahan.

Sometimes we forget when people are sick or hurt that what they most need is to feel connected, to be loved, to be touched. Dr. Lissa Rankin

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television. Walter Slezak

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me. Douglas Coupland

I’m getting sick and tired of doing anything half way. Knute Rockne.

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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