If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Quotes
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbHealth can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902