Answers Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Djuna Barnes

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor…

— Michel de Montaigne

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

— Flannery O'Connor

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be…

— Sophocles

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

— Aldous Huxley

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

— Anthony Trollope

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated. He is set aside in one of the technical and…

— Michel de Certeau

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

— Fran Drescher

Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental…

— Jostein Gaarder

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

— Hannah Green