Health Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain…

— John Barth

“There is nothing less romantic, literary, or lyrical than the language of pathology, diagnosis, symptom checklists. As I read through these checklists over and…

— Priscilla Gilman

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be…

— Thomas Mann

“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.”

— Marcel Proust

“The mind only knows what lies near the heart, that alone is conscious of our affections. No disease is worse to a sensible man…

— Saemund Sigfusson

“Pathology is a fact independent of the observer, but how one responds to symptoms is drawn from knowledge and experience.”

— Suzanne O'Sullivan

“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

“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But even if…

— Gary Greenberg