A Quote by Mark Buchanan

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Mark Buchanan

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Defy Often Ourselves Physical Resign Sickness Soul

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Mark Buchanan
American - Physicist
Born: October 31, 1961

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

Lord Chesterfield

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

Hermann Hesse

I think we have in Germany too many sickness funds. We started with more than 1,000 sickness funds. But the fewer sickness funds there are, the less bureaucracy and the easier the system is to operate. But it is important that the best sickness funds survive.

Karl Lauterbach

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

Elie Wiesel

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

Simone Weil

You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

Albert Schweitzer

Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.

Spencer W. Kimball

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

Herbert Marcuse

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Augustus William Hare

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

Laozi

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

William S. Burroughs

There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.

Benny Hinn

A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

Rumi

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

William S. Burroughs

If you have a sickness, you gotta fix that sickness, but you can't keep putting somebody into treatment over and over and over again.