Sickness Quotes

“Disgust plays a role in sexuality analogous to its role in food selection by guiding people to the narrow class of culturally acceptable sexual partners and sexual acts. Once again, disgust turns off desire and motivates concerns about purification, separation, and cleansing. Disgust also gives us a queasy feeling when we see people with skin lesions, deformities, amputations, extreme obesity or thinness, and other violations of the culturally ideal outer envelope of the human body. It is the exterior that matters: Cancer in the lungs or a missing kidney is not disgusting; a tumor on the face or a missing finger is.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“It is a heavy and indelible sin that I brought into the world with me; it is a heavy and innumerable multitude of sins which I have heaped up since; I have sinned behind thy back (if that can be done), by wilful abstaining from thy congregations and omitting thy service, and I have sinned before thy face, in my hypocrisies in prayer, in my ostentation, and the mingling a respect of myself in preaching thy word; I have sinned in my fasting, by repining when a penurious fortune hath kept me low; and I have sinned even in that fulness, when I have been at thy table, by a negligent examination, by a wilful prevarication, in receiving that heavenly food and physic. But as I know, O my gracious God, that for all those sins committed since, yet thou wilt consider me, as I was in thy purpose when thou wrotest my name in the book of life in mine election; so into what deviations soever I stray and wander by occasion of this sickness, O God, return thou to that minute wherein thou wast pleased with me, and consider me in that condition.”
― John Donne, The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons

“While natural selection is expected -all else being equal- to weed out traits that have become detrimental to fitness, the process may often take a long time. This generates the potential for mismatch between and organism's adaptations and its present environment.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“You, Sir, of all men whom I have known, are he whose body is the closest conjoined, and imbued, and identified, so to speak, with the spirit whereof it is the instrument.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“This state of mind preyed upon my health, which had perhaps never entirely recovered from the first shock it had sustained. I shunned the face of men; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

“It just makes me want to puke, Vic. I see that guy sitting on his desk and looking out at me like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, taking a big bit of that cereal with the runny dye in it and saying, 'Nope, nothing wrong here,' and I get sick to my stomach. Physically sick to my stomach. I'm glad the projectionist had to go. If I watched them one more time, I'd have to do it with an airsick bag in my lap.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“The earliest symptoms of altitude sickness are often memory issues.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The illnesses in high altitude professional astronomy are generally a mixture of long term altitude sickness and workplace toxicity.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Altitude Sickness in humans has different classifications.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Systemic inflammation is a component of altitude sickness.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Environmental health is a rapidly emerging field of human biological science.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Altitude sickness is a poorly defined sickness.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“When you're sick, you cannot listen to other people's illnesses. You just want to be heard.”
― Alessandro Baronciani, When Everything Turned Blue

“We should always strive to understand what makes us feel bad... before we feel bad, if possible. As well as what makes us feel good... although that could be the hardest thing of all.”
― Alessandro Baronciani, When Everything Turned Blue

“The fact that Marco was not afraid of his future... of being ill... well, it made me even more frightened. Because he was so positive he could make it.”
― Alessandro Baronciani, When Everything Turned Blue

“After a nasty flu-like sickness went through my family in 2015, I developed chronic daily headaches. I had them for years until my brain was scanned with a CT X-Ray scanner. A few weeks later they disappeared and I have never seen them since!”
― Steven Magee

“Good health is a good thing to be treasured.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Without sickness, good health is never appreciated.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I have never met a doctor that could accurately diagnose my wide range of sickness and correctly treat me.”
― Steven Magee

“As a rule, sexually selected traits tend to be more condition-dependent --and thus more vulnerable to dysfunctions-- than other phenotypes. This contributes to explain why males are generally more vulnerable to both harmful mutations and environmental insults.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“Sickness makes one to appreciate good health.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The hospital corridor stretched out in front of me, endless and blank, but the smells told me everything – blood and love and fear, and covering it all, the sharp, fake odor of bleach and cleansers, a mask that kept slipping.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Once industrialisation ocurred, non-communicable (chronic) diseases (NCDs; e.g., cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cardio-vascular, and non-infectious respiratory diseases) started to rise and replace infections. Tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diets and the harmful use of alcohol are key risk factors for NCDs.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“It pays to be fat during serious sickness so you can absorb a huge weight loss during your recovery.”
― Steven Magee

“Humanity must work in harmony to prevent sickness, which is a major destroyer of human race.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The human race is destroyed by sickness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no such thing as a diet without toxins. The diets of all our ancestors, like those of today, were compromises between costs and benefits. This is one of the less welcome conclusions that arise from an evolutionary view of medicine.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“We can also, more than any other species, protect ourselves from being poisoned by learning about how to avoid it. Only we can read about the dangerous plants in our gardens and woodlands, and we are the the species whose diets are most shaped by social learning. A food our mothers fed us can usually be accepted as safe and nourishing. What our friends eat without apparent harm is at least worth a try. What they avoid we would be wise to treat cautiously.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Our capacity to create and manipulate mental representations has many benefits, and the ability to foresee new dangers is clearly one of them. This capacity also helps us to avoid repetitions of actual experiences of danger or injury without creating unnecessary phobias.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

“Some cues -for instance, snakes, spiders, and heights- readily elicit fear in ourselves and other primates. It should not surprise us to discover that we instinctively avoid certain cues that have long been associated with such dangers as falling and dangerous animals.”
― Randolph M. Nesse, Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine