quotations about illness
There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.
DAN SIMMONS
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The Fall of Hyperion
Prevention is better than cure.
ERASMUS
Adagia
Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves
When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
But when ill indeed,
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER
Broad Grins, Lodgings for Single Gentlemen
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