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“Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.”

Firsts Bigs Loses Loss Issues Sick Illness

Book:How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

Source: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

“Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.”

Feels Persons Might Loss Compassion Concern Sick Relation Ill Temper Providence Resignation Old Person

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

“High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can't stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets - many are fat themselves.”

Looks Heart Long Term Loss Disease Sick Weight Cancer Creator Fats Diets Plus Temporary Strokes Weight Loss Short Term Protein Kidneys Heart Disease Kidney Disease

Author:John A. McDougall

“Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time”

Men May Use Turns Loss Company Mankind Solitude Conversation Sick Cures Miserable Weary

Author:Seneca the Younger

“If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?”

Ifs Should Children Doe Action Faces Law Mother Wish Loss Husband Sick Suicide Moved Extremes Commit Branches Leap Nurse Acceptable Laws Of Nature Cliffs Widows Loss Of A Child Caretakers

Author:Lisa See

“I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.”

Feels Body Next Loss Minutes Missing Arms Sick Sensations Throwing One Minute Spleen Throwing Up

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“Oh. No wonder I'd been sick. I hadn't eaten anything since then. I'm a girl who likes her meals, so it hadn't been a weight-loss tactic. I'd just been too busy bumping from crisis to crisis. Go on the Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance of Death Diet! Run for your life, and miss meals, too! Exercise plus starvation.”

Running Girl Loss Wonder Missing Goes On Exercise Sick Weight Crisis Busy Likes Diets Meals Plus Tactics Weight Loss Too Busy Avoidance Starvation Sookie Stackhouse

Author:Charlaine Harris