Be encouraged Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids.  I consider it morbid.  Illness of any kind is hardly a…

— Oscar Wilde

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

— Andre Gide

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

— Phyllis Bottome

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

— Marcel Proust

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

— Marcia Angell

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help,…

— Terry Pratchett

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let…

— Susan Sontag

“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the…

— Oscar Wilde

“suffering. Take the fate of the sick—especially those who are incurable. I once read a letter written by a young invalid, in which he…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously…

— Petrarch

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is…

— Jean de la Bruyere