"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-- Guy de Maupassant

#Sick Quotes #Fever Quotes #Body Quotes

“There are many things a man will do, but betrayal for a price is not one of yours.”

Source : "Fictional character: Paul de Bursac". "To Have and Have Not", 1944.
“But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever....”
“If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other people. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace by the way and glory to the end â€“ all this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions. He loves us too well to promise that.”

Source : "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".
“Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.”
“Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Reading books, studying history - all these things contribute to making us better citizens, too.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.
“It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.”

Source : Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.38, Cato Institute
“I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.”
“Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.”

You may also like:

Anton Chekhov
Physician
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Emile Zola
Writer
Gustave Flaubert
Writer
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
Stendhal
Writer
Theophile Gautier
Poet
Victor Hugo
Poet
Voltaire
Writer