Hope Quote by Patricia McCormick

“It felt like chicken soup when I had a snotty mess of a cold, like a glass of icy apple juice when my body…

— Sarah Chamberlain

“The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:—ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing! The sickness—the nausea—…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Marcel Proust

“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

“A gentle, warm, sweet pain spreads through my chest at those words.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“It’s worse than a disease. It’s a poison.”

— Lauren Oliver

“I gave way to a wave of home-sickness that almost shames me now when I recollect it. I find it impossible in cold blood,…

— H. V. Morton

“The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples.”

— Laura Wiess

“Her illness was a relief, for if you are in a high fever you forget all your worries.”

— Italo Svevo

“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

“The deadweight of his body,coupled with the aches, made him remember back to a time when he'd gotten colds or flus. Same feeling. Was…

— J.R. Ward

“Thin, without fever, not cold, not warm, with empty eyes, without a shirt, the young man under the stuffed quilt heaves himself up, hangs…

— Franz Kafka