Kindness Quote by Marcel Proust

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

— Marcel Proust

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

— Marcel Proust

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

— James Holman

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

— Oscar Wilde

“I have a sickness doctors can't cure, Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction, Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her…

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

— Marcel Proust

“for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Henry Fielding

“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.”

— Thomas Huxley

“However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible. All my patients are like that. And so are…

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