Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Quotes
Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937