Illness Quotes

Once Antigonus was told his son was ill, and went to see him. At the door he met some young beauty. Going in, he sat down by the bed and took his pulse. “The fever,” said Demetrius, “has just left me.” – ” Oh, yes,” replied the father, “I met it going out at the […]

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

I think of my illness (ovarian cancer) as a school, and finally I’ve graduated.

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.