Health Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

“All mortal greatness is but disease.”

— Herman Melville

“To say the truth, every physician, almost, hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature.”

— Henry Fielding

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

— Marcel Proust

“Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay”

— William Faulkner

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

— Oscar Wilde

“One disease, long life; no disease, short life.”

— Benjamin Hoff

“Illness contains the seed of health.”

— Ted Kaptchuk

“Health, not illness, is our natural state. It’s usually just a matter of finding it tucked beneath the layers of imbalance that have accumulated…

— Suhas G. Kshirsagar

“Health is the great blessing of God.”

— Muhammad Zain

“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

“III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died.”

— Marcus Aurelius