Body Quote by Siri Hustvedt

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse…

— Lewis Thomas

When I die, I want a disease named after me, with symptoms that include being awesome at everything.

— Young Siddiq Prince

There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

— Martin H. Fischer

Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply…

— James Hillman

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a…

— George MacDonald

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

— Alexander Pope

People are starting to reflect upon the power of emotions on illness and I have always felt a direct connection between emotion and body.…

— Caroline Dhavernas

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

by and by, the cause of my disease Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is…

— Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But even if…

— Gary Greenberg