In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348Quotes
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833