Edmond de Goncourt Quotes

When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

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

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang

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

If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.

Sickness is the result not only of our acts, but out thoughts also.

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.

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

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.