My sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody’s.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.[Medicina è ripareggiaméto de’ disequali elemeti; malattia è discordanza d’elemeti ifusi nel uitale corpo.]
Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.
Love as a force contributory to disease.
Is Wagner a man at all? Is he not rather a disease? Everything he touches he makes morbid – he has made music morbid.
Infirmity doth still neglect all office whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves when nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind to suffer with the body.
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.]
If it was not for sea-sickness the whole world would be sailors.
I was sick – sick unto death with that long agony.
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.
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
