668 Quotes About Illness

I was witnessing another example of the way community functioned so tightly here, for better or for worse. Each of the women on this street will be called upon and expected to participate in the illness or death of the others. They held one another up, it was a custom as ancient and alive as the ruins of Sicily's Harrah temple.

She knew what would happen. There was always going to be someone else. Someone who isn’t sick

The California forest fires may lead to increased disease rates in their population.

Nobody even spoke now, for they were all stupified by the accmulation of woes-- granpa coughing and spitting black, with his old rheumatic complaint returning to dropsy, father asthmatical, his knees swollen up with water, mother and the children scarred by scrofula and hereditary anaemia. Of course all that was part of the job, and you didn't complain except when the lack of food finished you off.

I would check myself and wonder if I had already contracted the plague, as in such strange countries my thoughts rambled. But then I decided it was merely the times that made us strange , and we must cling to our sanity, and accept there were fewer and fewer touchstones against which to check or measure it. It often felt as though it was a daily battle merely to stop ourselves running mad.

Insecurity paralyses, makes one feel half-dead,especially if one is already tied to the hospital bed.

Sometimes I worry people might be able to place thoughts in my head, or take my thoughts away.

I'm not sick. I'm dying." "Yeah, but you're sick." "I'm sick from dying.

It is growing worse every day. At night"I get up to catch my breath. If I remained"flat on my back I believe I would die.