424 Quotes About Sickness

  • Author John Green
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    and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

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  • Author Christian Wiman
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    The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your misery? Their tears are real, but they are not for you.

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  • Author Eric Puchner
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    Was that really all there was to love? Darkness undone, a hand on your forehead. In the meantime all you could do was wait--tired, alone, the minutes as long or short as a lifetime--for the face in your dream to appear.

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  • Author A.P.
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    ...nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only sapping my strength when most I need it. Leave me in peace and let me grapple.

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  • Author Janusz Leon Wiśniewski
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    Myślisz, że chory rozum można odróżnić od chorej duszy? Pytam z ciekawości. Ja miałem chore wszystko. Każdą pojedynczą komórkę. Ale to już minęło. Może nie jestem całkiem zdrowy, ale z pewnością jestem uleczony.

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  • Author V.C. Repetto
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    The teachers skirted our questions as best they could, though I was sure it was more from their own ignorance about what was going on than from the need to keep us in the dark. They carried on with classes, ignoring the few vacant seats, but it was hard to miss the slight pause in their lectures when a student sneezed or coughed.

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