Illness Quotes

There is, let us confess it (and illness is the great confessional), a childish outspokenness in illness; things are said, truths blurted out, which the cautious respectability of health conceals. About sympathy for example – we can do without it. That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings […]

Every invalid is a prisoner.

God and the doctor, We both adore In time of trouble, Not before. Illness cured, Reverses righted, God is forgotten, The doctor slighted.

I enjoy convalescence. It’s the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

The common cold, if left untreated, lasts about two weeks. If treated with medication and rest, it lasts about fourteen days.

The surly bird gets the germ.

Fire, the sea, and woman; these are three ills.

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.