He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Quotes
I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCHealth care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverb