George Eliot Quotes

My dad lived with pain his whole life.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

Idleness ruins the constitution

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

I wanted to be prepared and be strong for any unexpected challenges, so from the beginning I was doing kick-boxing. I was wearing a sauna suit everyday, I was wearing sea goggles, I was wearing gloves. I was trying to put myself through the worst condition ever and most of the training sessions I was puking up.

I have a terrific headache.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

The gods have become our diseases.