Free thought Quote by Thomas Mann

“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

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“who is not sick, or ill-disposed? in whom doth not passion, anger, envy, discontent, fear and sorrow reign? Who labours not of this disease?”

— Robert Burton

“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

“You allow that we designate a disease as mortal when Nature is so severely attacked, and her strength so far exhausted, that she cannot…

— Charles William Eliot

“The mind only knows what lies near the heart, that alone is conscious of our affections. No disease is worse to a sensible man…

— Saemund Sigfusson

“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

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence; and, as I pointed out some time ago in an article on the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the…

— Samuel Johnson

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and…

— Adam Smith

“But suffering from a life-threatening disease also helped me have a different attitude and perspective. It has given a new intensity to life, for…

— Desmond Tutu