Susan Sontag Quotes

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

The gods have become our diseases.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

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Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.

I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

I told you I was sick.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.