Sickness Quotes

“He was stronger than this sickness, stronger than the pull of the water.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“There is, let us confess it (and illness is the great confessional) a childish outspokenness in illness; things are said, truths blurted out, which the cautious respectability of health conceals.”
― Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill

“In health meaning has encroached upon sound. Our intelligence domineers over our senses.
But in illness, with the police off duty, we creep beneath some obscure poem by Mallarmé or Donne, some phrase in Latin or Greek, and the words give out their scent, and ripple like leaves, and chequer us with light and shadow,
and then, if at last we grasp the meaning, it is all the richer for having travelled slowly up with all the bloom upon its wings.”
― Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill

“Sickness is sickness," said Hanne. "It's not something to fear.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Sickness brings about a full understanding of how much your partner cares for you.”
― Steven Magee

“But for all this Death did not depart from the land, rather it came sooner and more often, and in many dreadful guises. For whereas aforetime men had grown slowly old, and had laid them down in the end to sleep, when they were weary at last of the world, now madness and sickness assailed them; and yet they were afraid to die and go out into the dark, the realm of the lord that they had taken; and they cursed themselves in their agony. And men took weapons in those days and slew one another for little cause; for they were become quick to anger, and Sauron, or those whom he had bound to himself, went about the land setting man against man, so that the people murmured against the King and he lords, or against any that had aught that they had not; and the men of power took cruel revenge.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“Love is
more than
blind.
It's
brain-dead.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Tricks

“Deprivation of the ability to speak is more like an attack of impotence, or the amputation of part of the personality. To a great degree, in public and in private, I 'was' my voice.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

“If you are having mysterious sickness for years that doctors have had little success in treating, an intestinal parasite cleanse is always worth a try.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Altitude hypersensitivity had me in a permanent state of chronic mountain sickness at 2,400 feet in Tucson until I moved to near sea level.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Occupational sickness may entitle you to compensation, even if the sickness took decades to be correctly diagnosed.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“One of my brain’s cylinders is misfiring!”
― Steven Magee

“Sleep is so vital that we do not have to earn it.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The mature internet, the rapidly changing environment and a global hypoxia pandemic has accelerated research into altitude sickness.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“The professional astronomy management team called the strange sickness in their summit workers ‘Summit Brain’.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

“It's one thing to be sick of your own infirmities, and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in this world.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“When I saw the Hawaiians being arrested for protesting the development of the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea and the police officers being taken to the hospital, I knew the science of ‘Altitude Sickness’ needed to be progressed as rapidly as possible.”
― Steven Magee

“i am accused of developing
symptoms of life-sickness
whenever things quickly
start losing meaning”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Memory

“Most of the mismatch diseases from which we currently suffer stem from the transition from hunting and gathering to farming.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“After leaving Florida, I researched my Florida sickness and found it matched Radio Wave Sickness!”
― Steven Magee

“Florida turned me into an expert on Radio Wave Sickness!”
― Steven Magee

“I associate Florida with Radio Wave Sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“High altitude professional astronomy is a radiation occupation.”
― Steven Magee

“I left Florida with a bad dose of Radio Wave Sickness!”
― Steven Magee

“Electro-Magnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is a condition that occurs in the minority of the population and they react to man-made environmental electromagnetic fields. Radio Wave Sickness (RWS) occurs in the majority of the population when they are exposed to a biologically toxic electromagnetic field. Both can make a person become mildly to severely sick with a wide variety of health conditions.”
― Steven Magee

“Change happens to a lot of people. That's why the divorce rate is so high!”
― Steven Magee

“Bad career choices will take you into sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“Evidence is overwhelming that, after switching to agriculture, human stature decreased, a very reliable indicator of a decline in overall wellbeing. People fell sick more often because of higher population density and because pathogens jumped from domesticated animals to humans. The quality of nutrition declined, as is abundantly documented in ancient bones and teeth.”
― Peter Turchin, Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

“I was not surprised that a high altitude researcher would be harassed by high altitude police officers!”
― Steven Magee