1956 Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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

— Irvine Welsh

“It was mad. It was inconceivable. Anthony began to detect in himself the symptoms of a disease he had sworn never to acquire--lovesickness--and thus…

— Dominique Frost

“He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's…

— John Steinbeck

“But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was…

— Anna Jeffrey

“He was ragged around the edges, a walking open wound with psych issues galore. But he still had a beating heart. Thoughts, feelings, fears.…

— Tonya Burrows

“Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way…

— Leah Raeder

“You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It was his wounded pride that made him ill.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Mother: “I couldn’t stand his friends from medical school. They were all pompous and awkward. They knew how to memorize but they didn’t know…

— Eula Biss

“It was, he supossed, one of the adventages of having married a doctor- you could shove the kid at your husband whenever the kid…

— Stephen King

“In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.”

— Susanna Clarke

“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it…

— Charles Dickens