Art Quote by Marcel Proust

“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

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.”

— William Owens

“for as health is but one thing, and has been always the same, whereas diseases are by thousands, besides new and daily additions, so…

— Jonathan Swift

“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

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

— Cindee Snider Re

“In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine so complex…

— Atul Gawande

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

— Marcel Proust

“I believe that we will never quite understand the wonderful disease that is the human condition. We can only hope that perhaps as we…

— Preston K. Bullard

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is an inescapable fact that we already know enough to strengthen with our mind the body's repair forces so that illness can be…

— José Silva

“Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.”

— Lauren Slater