#illness

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#choose #die #fatal #help #i

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#contains #detachment #dreams #finds #him

Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there from year after year of terrifying dreams. They had swum through the almost solid ground. She had said, What is that awful stench? Shame and secrecy, Bird-one, shame and secrecy, he had answered. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#dreams

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#before #cure #easiest #illness #part

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#illness #mental #mental illness #national #paranoid

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#his #hope #i #illness #just

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. ↗

— Gail Devers

#disease #given #gland #graves #i

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#dread #fully #i #illness #myself