Illness Quotes

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.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify […]