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If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
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
Depression is not the same as sadness. Depression is an illness like any other illness such as cancer and diabetes.
Deepika Padukoneborn 1986NDTV report
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957The Function of the Orgasm (1942)
- Love
A hospital alone shows what war is.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter XIn context
- War & Peace
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl Sagan1934–1996The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1: The Most Precious Thing
- Science
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
Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Food
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
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
John Steinbeck1902–1968Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962), Pt. 2
- Emotion
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCThe Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave, Maxim 301