Fear Quote by Robert Burton

“It is devilish to suffer from a pain that is all but nameless. Blessed are they who are stricken only with classifiable diseases! Blessed…

— George Orwell

“The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be…

— Thomas Mann

“All who live are in despair.(?) And that is the sickness unto death.(?) It is that a man refuses to be what he is.(?)”

— Saul Bellow

“Some kings of England could not read or write; some died of illness which would keep us in bed only for a week or…

— P.J. Sidey

“There is some sickness in man, some paranoid delusion, some grandiose morbidity that runs right through to distant ancestors. Or maybe it is the…

— John Joseph Adams

“III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“All the (sickness and) diseases of the worldly life disappear with the innate bliss of the Soul, the Self. Grief gives rise to the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“That this world’s general sickness doth not lie In any humour, or one certain part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart,…

— John Donne

“There is no disease more to be dreaded than madness. For what greater unhappiness can befall a man than to be deprived of his…

— Richard Mead

“Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.”

— James Holman

“Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.”

— Euripides