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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCThe Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave, Maxim 301
The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness.
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Dr. James Kerr Love (1910), published in Helen Keller in Scotland: a personal record written by herself (1933), edited by James Kerr Love
Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. The truths we respect are those born of affliction.
Susan Sontag1933–2004Review of Selected Essays by Simone Weil, The New York Review of Books (1 February 1963)
- Truth & Lies
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun.
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind
- Nature
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
A free health service is pure Socialism and as such it is opposed to the hedonism of capitalist society.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960In Place of Fear (1952), p. 81
- Politics
A free Health Service is a triumphant example of the superiority of collective action and public initiative applied to a segment of society where commercial principles are seen at their worst.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960In Place of Fear (1952), p. 85
- Economics
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Lionel Trilling1905–1975The Liberal Imagination (1950), Art and Neurosis
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus460–360 BCFragment B31 (preserved by Clement of Alexandria), tr. Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers (1948), p. 149
- Wisdom
Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.
William S. Burroughs1914–1997Junkie (1953)
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
William S. Burroughs1914–1997Naked Lunch, “Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness”, p. 201
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
Luis Buñuel1900–1983Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
- Life & Death
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Notes on Hospitals 3rd Edition (1863), Preface
If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.
Bill Gatesborn 1955“The next outbreak? We’re not ready”, TED talk (3 April 2015)
- War & Peace
It’s like I’ve got a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.
Robert Downey Jr.born 1965To Judge Lawrence Mira before sentencing, Malibu Municipal Court (August 1999)