We put together these sick quotes because of the time of year. The day after the Super Bowl is supposedly the day that more folks call in sick to work than any other day.
With so much “illness” going around, I thought some of you might want to lean on some insights from authors and other notables on the topic. So if you’re feeling under the weather, get well soon.
Quotes About Being Sick
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
I’m so mean I make medicine sick!
Muhammad Ali
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.
Mother Goose
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Rodney Dangerfield
Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Henry David Thoreau
You can’t have healing without sickness.
T.D. Jakes
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Best Sick Quotes
What am I drinking? NyQuil on the rocks, for when you’re feeling sick but sociable.
Mitch Hedberg
It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.
Michael Moore
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
Tony Snow
Sickness Sayings
Being sick feels like you’re wearing someone else’s glasses.
Megan Boyle
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
Feeling Sick Quotes
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil Gibran
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Felix Frankfurter
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
G.K. Chesterton
Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Good Sick Quotes
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.
Vladimir Lenin
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
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Getting Well Quotations
If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well
Unknown
Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.
Dutch Proverb
Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.
Amit Kalantri
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
If just knowing that someone cares about you helps the healing process…then you should be feeling better already.
Unknown
Mike O’Halloran
These sick quotes were compiled by Greeting Card Poet founder, Mike O’Halloran.
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