Quote by Noah Gordon

“He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And now he had acquired the wisdom to admit that sometimes experienced his disdain for “weak, sick people” because he was frightened by any…

— James C. Coyne

“Sickness burrowed deep inside you, and even if you were cured, even if you could be cured, you would never forget how it felt…

— Brit Bennett

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh

“He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.”

— Jane Austen

“It was his wounded pride that made him ill.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”

— Eleanor Catton

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

— Djuna Barnes

“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…

— Ibn Hazm

“And His heart is always to heal the sick person.”

— Heidi Baker

“He longed for company. He was cruel because he didn't know whether or not people felt pain and he wanted to find out and…

— Michèle Roberts