{"quotes":[{"text":"You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you.'I know,' Benteley agreed. 'I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?","author":"Philip K. Dick","tags":["reality","sickness","world"],"id":2716,"author_id":"Philip+K.+Dick"},{"text":"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["plath","sickness","writing"],"id":9175,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from it. And I know too that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in careless moment we breathe in somebody's face and fasten the infection on him. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest- health integrity purity if you like - is a product of the human will of vigilance that must never falter. The good man the man who infects hardly anyone is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention. And it needs tremendous will-power a never ending tension of the mind to avoid such lapses. Yes Rieux it's a wearying business being plague-stricken. But it's still more wearying to refuse to be it. That's why everybody in the world today looks so tired everyone is more or less sick of plague. But that is also why some of us who want to get the plague out of their systems feel such desperate weariness a weariness from which nothing remains to set us free except death.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["health","sickness","social-commentary"],"id":10646,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"Just a simple prayer today, for those who are sick or going through darkness of any kind. Dear God, we ask that you place your healing hands on the shoulders of our friends and loved ones, who are suffering and relieve them of these hardships, in Jesus name. Amen.","author":"Ron Baratono","tags":["friends","god","jesus","loved-ones","sickness"],"id":12098,"author_id":"Ron+Baratono"},{"text":"Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.","author":"Andrea Seigel","tags":["duality","feelings","ghosts","hospitals","meaning","romance","sickness"],"id":12636,"author_id":"Andrea+Seigel"},{"text":"During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["cerebral","dol","hypoxia","kea","mauna","osha","safe","safety","sick","sickness","sickness-and-diseases","sickness-and-health","sickness-of-the-mind","symptom","symptomatic","symptomological","symptoms","symptoms-of-anger","worker","worker-rights","workers"],"id":15060,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Sickness is a sort of early old age  it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.","author":"Alexander Pope","tags":["medicine","sickness"],"id":15540,"author_id":"Alexander+Pope"},{"text":"It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.","author":"Bela Schick","tags":["medicine","sickness"],"id":17153,"author_id":"Bela+Schick"},{"text":"Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.","author":"Siri Hustvedt","tags":["illness","language","sickness"],"id":19466,"author_id":"Siri+Hustvedt"},{"text":"The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased state.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adaptability","adaptation","disease","diseased","diseases","electromagnetic","electromagnetic-radiation","electromagnetic-theory-of-light","electromagnetic-wave","exposure","exposures","genetic","genetic-mutation","genetically-damaged","genetics","human","increasing","natural","natural-selection","progress","progression","progressive","radiation","radiation-effects","reducing","removing","result","results","results","sick","sickened","sickly","sickness","sickness-and-diseases","sickness-of-the-mind","state"],"id":20405,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":301,"pages":31,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}