illness quotes

My illness was also my antidote: it cured me of laziness.

- Lewis Addison Armistead
  Referring to his recovery from cancer in Every Second Counts.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada isparanoid schizophrenia.

- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Poems by Margaret Atwood, afterword.

Illness and death†the only things that a tyrant has in commonwith his subjects† In thissensealone, a nation profits from being run byan old man.

- Ioseph Brodsky
  Less Than One,'On Tyranny'.

Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le reme'  de. Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every16 hours.It's a palliative. Death is the remedy.

- Se  bastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Maximes et Pense  es (1795), ch.2.

Thank Heaven! the crisis The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'ForAnnie'.

Neurosishas anabsolutegenius for malingering.There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly.

- Marcel Proust
  Sodom and Gomorrah.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes illness worth while.

- George Bernard Shaw
Back to Methuselah.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

- Susan Sontag
  In the NewYork Review of Books, 26 Jan.

Der Philosoph behandelt eine Frage wie eine Krankheit. The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

- LudwigJosef Johann Wittgenstein
  Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations), section 255 (translated by G E M Anscombe).