Don’t deny the diagnosis; try to defy the verdict.
Illness Quotes
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Epidemics have often been more influential than statesmen and soldiers in shaping the course of political history, and diseases may also color the moods of civilizations.
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.
