Alterations Quote by Charles Kingsley

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

— Joni Mitchell

“Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language.  English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet…

— Virginia Woolf

“GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of…

— Tom Stoppard

“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Anguish is the most dangerous disease that makes you handicap for lifetime.”

— Yash Thakur

“It is a strange fact that many people are always at home to the “blues.” Whenever a fit visits them, it seems to be…

— Orison Swett Marden

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.”

— Marchel Reich-Ranicki

“One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of…

— Chris Prentiss

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

— Edith Wharton

Medication without explanation is obscene.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“I picked up a rare disease called conscience" … "That can often turn fatal.”

— Alfred Bester