An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a read more

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through read more

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, read more

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.