424 Quotes About Sickness

  • Author Emily Brontë
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    ...there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others, as an insult.

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  • Author Donna Tartt
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    I felt rotten. Dead butterfly floating on the surface of the pool. Audible machine hum. Drowned crickets and beetles swirling in the plastic filter baskets. Above, the setting sun flared gaudy and inhuman, blood-red shelves of cloud that suggested end-times footage of catastrophe and ruin: detonations on Pacific atolls, wildlife running before sheets of flame.

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  • Author Peter Ackroyd
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    As the Houses tumbled upon the Streets with a great roaring Noise, they cryed out We are undone! We are great Sinners! and the like: and yet as soon as the Danger was passed, they came back with their:Hey ho the Devil is Dead!Eat, drink, and go merry to Bed!Thus the Sick confesse to their Contagion only when they are like to Die of it, even tho' they carry their Death with them every where.

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