#disease

Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy to some, heartbreak to others, depending on circumstance. There is evidence that the emotion can make a person live longer, evidence it can kill you early. I think it's akin to a deadly disease. Or at least some exotic fever. Catch it, and you'd better, quick, swallow some medication to use as a weapon against the fire ravaging body and soul. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#love #love

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#disease #fatal #first #i #invariably

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning