Quote by Virginia Woolf

“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

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

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

— James Holman

“It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Sickness burrowed deep inside you, and even if you were cured, even if you could be cured, you would never forget how it felt…

— Brit Bennett

“Illness contains the seed of health.”

— Ted Kaptchuk

“Cheerfulness, sir, is the principal ingredient in the composition of health.”

— Arthur Murphy

“It is an inescapable fact that we already know enough to strengthen with our mind the body's repair forces so that illness can be…

— José Silva

“Never for an instant admit that you are sick, weak, or ill unless you wish to experience these conditions, for the very thinking of…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh

“What health is to the body; honesty is to the soul.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as a knockout.”

— Norman Mailer