Our air up here is good for the disease — I mean good against the disease,… but it is also good for the disease.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Love as a force contributory to disease.
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.[La maladie est le plus écouté des médecins: à la bonté, au savoir on ne fait que promettre ; on obéit à la souffrance.]
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
Great passions are hopeless diseases. That which could cure them is the first thing to make them really dangerous.
Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life.
Defeat is a disease, and victory is the cure.
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
