2,950 Quotes About Health





  • Author Socrates
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    It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

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  • Author Susan Sontag
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    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.

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  • Author Susan Sontag
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    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.

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  • Author Susan Sontag
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    Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

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  • Author Susan Sontag
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    [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

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