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I’m going to have cute boobs ‘til I’m 90, so there’s that. I’ll have the best boobs in the nursing home. I’ll be the envy of all the ladies around the bridge table.
Christina Applegateborn 1971During an interview on Good Morning America about her recent mastectomy. (August 19, 2008)
- Comedy
Depression is not the same as sadness. Depression is an illness like any other illness such as cancer and diabetes.
Deepika Padukoneborn 1986NDTV report
I think sometimes we think, “Well, only gay people can get it; it’s not going to happen to me”, and here I am saying that it can happen to anybody.
Magic Johnsonborn 1959Johnson on who can get HIV, from his official announcement about living with HIV (7 November 1991)
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend to you a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book II, Chapter XVIn context
- Clever Jabs
A hospital alone shows what war is.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter XIn context
- War & Peace
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene III, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Emotion
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently,
However they have writ the style of gods
And made a push at chance and sufferance.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act V, Scene I, spoken by LeonatoIn context
- Philosophy
I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Notes from Underground (1864), Part I: Underground, Chapter IIn context
- Character
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIIn context
- Comedy
Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Food
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act One, spoken by GaevIn context
I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Woman in White (1860), Second Epoch, The Story Continued by Frederick Fairlie, Esq., of Limmeridge HouseIn context
- Comedy
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts⁠—just mere thoughts⁠—are as powerful as electric batteries⁠—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Thinking
If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression,⁠—a slight hysterical tendency,⁠—what is one to do?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)In context
- Marriage