Lauren-slater-prozac-diary Quote by Lauren Slater

“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

“Could illness and pain hold greater purpose than we imagine?”

— Cindee Snider Re

“Sickness leading to healing. The truth and its opposite again”

— Gayle Forman

“Illness contains the seed of health.”

— Ted Kaptchuk

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

— Marcel Proust

“Life is a terminal illness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.”

— René Dubos

“It felt like illness, but it was only existence.”

— Joseph Fink

“One merely had the feeling that the disease had exhausted itself, or perhaps that it was retiring after achieving all of its objectives.”

— Albert Camus

“To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.”

— James Holman

“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.”

— Paul Levy