#illness

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them. ↗

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

#illness #medicine #medicine

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#bolano #books #literature-and-illness #sex #travel

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious. ↗

— Roman Payne

#desire #health #ill #illness #sickness

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#bore #cancer #illness #like #other

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#depression #happy #illnesses #just #like

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#illness #lot #mental #mental illness #people

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems. ↗

— David Coverdale

#been #fatigue #illness #long #most

Mentoring is: Sharing Life's Experiences and God's Faithfulness ↗

— Janet Thompson

#illness #lay-off #mentee #mentor #mentoring

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#commercialism #could #extravagance #fitted #illness