I think of my illness (ovarian cancer) as a school, and finally I’ve graduated.
Illness Quotes
If you were to rush in to this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal-with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever-in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before, I would, without a […]
I could never say in the morning, “I have a headache and cannot do thus and so”. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick.
What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.
For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. (The Tempest)
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world – when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
