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Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certaintiesTime unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes
Samuel Johnson
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
Bertrand Russell
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Oscar Wilde
The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
Ben Jonson
There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
Louis Dudek
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
Charles Lamb
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S Truman
When an elderly woman was asked why she was standing in line to buy stamps from a teller when she could have used a stamp machine she replied: The machine won't ask me about my arthritis!
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Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.
Georgia White
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.
Mother Goose
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
Samuel Butler