Ill Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

“Once an ill can be patiently born it is robbed of its poison if not its pain.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that enclosing your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals…

— Huey Freeman

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals…

— Anonymous

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

— Anonymous

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals…

— Huey Freeman

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me…

— Harold Brodkey

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

— Wilfred Bion

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

— Atul Gawande

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the…

— Harriet Martineau

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

— Jonathan Edwards