Edmund Waller Quotes

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.

Though we cannot prolong the period of a commonwealth beyond the decree of heaven, or the date of its nature, any more than human life beyond the strength of the seminal virtue, yet we may manage a sickly constitution, and preserve a strong one.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

I'm a human being, and I get sick.

The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.

I've got an old body.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

The sign of death is weakness.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.