Nightwood Quote by Djuna Barnes

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

— Djuna Barnes

“There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady…

— Herman Melville

“When you have an invisible disease, your sickness isn’t your biggest problem. What you end up battling more than anything else, every single day,…

— Heidi Cullinan

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

— Anthony Trollope

“He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they’d…

— Noah Gordon

“Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.”

— Oscar Wilde

“There is no disease more to be dreaded than madness. For what greater unhappiness can befall a man than to be deprived of his…

— Richard Mead

“He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“All sickness is homesickness.”

— Dianne Connelly

“I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength…

— Bram Stoker

“Instead of seeing sickness as a problem, something to correct, we accept it as a fact of life. We’ve all agreed to this arbitrary…

— Pam Grout