Quotes about Ill
When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
- 1 Samuel 19:14
Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.
- 1 Samuel 30:13
But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”
- 1 Kings 14:5
I, Daniel, was exhausted and lay ill for days. Then I got up and went about the king’s business. I was confounded by the vision; it was beyond understanding.
- Daniel 8:27
For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.
- Philippians 2:26
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
- JRR Tolkien
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
- William Hazlitt
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
- John Donne
What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill in me And wrought but malice. Lifted up so high
- John Milton
And all amid them stood the Tree of Life, High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Fruit Of vegetable Gold; and next to Life Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.
- John Milton
Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".
- George Weigel
He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
- Arthur Conan Doyle