Ralph Waldo Emerson Sick Quotations

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.