668 Quotes About Illness

The religions changed, the nuances of the demon, theologically, changed but the creature itself did not. So many diseases and illnesses were ascribed to demonic possession.

I had the sense that something in my life had ended, my image of myself as a whole or normal person maybe. I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn’t make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn’t make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful. Nothing would. I thanked my mother for the lift to the station and got out of the car.

When you died, you died in small doses. You had trouble speaking. You forgot who was beside you. You were suddenly furious and in a panic of outrage. You wished you could be saintly. You wished you weren't so weak. You suddenly felt better and fooled yourself into believing that a miracle was about to happen. Well, wasn't that all a dirty rotten thing to pull on somebody.

I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together.

At another time, or in another case, it might have excited my ridicule. But into what quackeries will not people rush for a last chance, where all accustomed means have failed, and the life of a beloved object is at stake?

The most irrational things can make a power of difference to a very ill woman.

- Ali, zapravo, čemu sve ovo, Robi?- Zato što se čovek ne predaje. Čovek je jači od sudbine sve dotle dok se ne preda. To je staro vojničko pravilo.

He took a deep breath that whispered into his lungs.

Medication, surgery, and radiation are the weapons with which conventional medicine foolishly shoots the messengers called symptoms.