Disease Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Distress is a disease of the mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

— Ada Leverson

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

— Tom Baker

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to…

— William Hazlitt

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

— Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

— Oscar Wilde

The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

— Laozi

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

— Oscar Wilde

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

— Aristotle

“Sometimes friends have to suffer for their friends' happiness.”

— Elizabeth Eulberg

“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor…”

— Émile Gaboriau