Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. Sigmund Freud
Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. Edward Stanley
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. Susan Sontag
Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature’s aid with intellect. Friedrich Nietzsche
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. Albert Schweitzer
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources – spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. Norman Cousins
We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there. Mason Cooley
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness. Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. George Bernard Shaw
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. Anthony Trollope