An apple a day feeds the tapeworm to stay.

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one...

Get well soon” card saying I was sorry for coughing in their general direction on the 4th of November, and I hope that wasn’t a contributing factor for their illnesses.

I don’t believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

Fortunately, for most people, mumps is a fairly mild illness and they get over it quickly. Some people may have it without even any symptoms and not even be aware that they’re spreading it.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one’s health

In the spring of 2009, I was the 217th person ever to be diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. Just a year later, that figure had doubled. Now the number is in the thousands. Yet Dr....

words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language to talk to each other about the...

He was surprised at the way she answered. She had taken a long time to say that. She had nodded her head in a deep way too. Had she wished to affect him with some...

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and...

The only mitigating circumstance in this case is, we know she did suffer from a mental illness. That did not necessarily excuse her conduct or criminal responsibility, but we did take that into account.

It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being from a different realm, worlds apart from us and by whom it is impossible to...

But I had already fallen. Fallen into this deep, dark hole. I was trapped. Trapped in this nightmare.

[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the sticks on the stream; helter-skelter with the dead leaves on the lawn, irresponsible...

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

If you have a strong stomachread on.

The iron has entered my soul,’ announced George Knox impressively. ‘Let me tell you, my dear Laura, that when I lay here weak and ill, unable to raise a hand in my own defence, I...

Youth, I didn’t want that illness. Luckily I recovered just in time for middle age. Now I can focus on more important things, like love, a relationship, and my upcoming existential crisis.

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and...

People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don’t. And it doesn’t matter if the sickness is cancer or if it’s depression. Sometimes the drugs work and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes the...

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

It’s one of a number of pathogens that are probably in the water that could cause illness,

I was looking forward to finally putting this last stretch out of its misery and put the illness behind us. My fastball has some life in it.

However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there’s one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I...

When I hear someone’s sick, my first thought is selfishly, Better him than me. My second thought is more altruistic: Better him than one of my loved ones.

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed...

Dream: I look for Lama Lodrö Kagyu teacher friend hearing he’s ill & I’m ill, too – I enter his room and he says “I’ve been trying to find you – I wanted you to...

Nothing’s scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It’s the worst thing for a parent.

But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.

People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant and don’t matter. They are not going to understand you, or even see...

Should a man, to preserve his life, pay everything that gives life colour, scent and excitement? Can one accept a life of digestion, respiration, muscular and brain activity – and nothing more? Become a walking...

He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.(“Death Of A Traveling Salesman”)

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness- a real...

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

He looked as if he he subsisted exclusively on carbohydrates and ill feeling.

There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone.

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the sick person covers them both. We find it so natural because we are...

God is not here to be demanded of, begged from, or criticized. He hands out burdens to those who are strong enough to carry them, and I feel profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of lining...

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking,...

Such planetary alignments are thought to lead to local miasmas: concentrations of fetid air and noxious vapors. These miasmas are then blown on the wind and enter men’s and women’s bodies through the pores of...

I long ago learned that one’s illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one’s friends, uncertain as to the cause of one’s queer behavior and strange sufferings,...

I’m so sorry I have this. I can’t stand the thought of how much worse this is going to get. I can’t stand the thought of looking at you someday, and this face I love,...

we could take over the world without a shot.

Ich habe das Gefühl, als würde sich Säure statt Blut durch meine Adern fressen”, erklärte er. “Wenn ich spreche, habe ich Angst, einen Teil meiner Eingeweide auszuspucken. Hätte ich eine Morphiumspritze zur Hand, würde ich...