quotations about illness
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Sermons
Disease generally brings that equality which death completes.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Saturday Magazine, November 11, 1837
For all practical purposes the ill are put into prison. They are forced to concentrate upon their condition.
JANE ROBERTS
The Nature of Personal Reality
A good physician will advise himself whether a disease cometh from God, or is the fault of the party diseased.
HIPPOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
JOHN GREEN
The Fault in Our Stars