Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975Quotes
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348