Quotes about health
49 quotes from 41 people
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 387 (24 May 1712)
Christina Applegateborn 1971During an interview on Good Morning America about her recent mastectomy. (August 19, 2008)
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960In Place of Fear (1952), p. 81- Aneurin Bevan1897–1960In Place of Fear (1952), p. 85
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Luis Buñuel1900–1983Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)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
Charles IIIborn 1948Speech to the British Medical Association, as cited in “Drugs: The Patient has had enough”, The Times (16 December 1982), p. 12I 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 contextMedicine 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. 149I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.
