Illness Quote by Marcel Proust

“Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the disease, for…

— R. G. Collingwood

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

— Marcel Proust

“No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.”

— Djuna Barnes

“It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.”

— sir william osler

“There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady…

— Herman Melville

“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the reach of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.”

— William S. Wilson

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

— Stifyn Emrys

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

— William Osler

“A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best of medicines and the best doctors ”

— Anonymous

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Marcel Proust