Saint Augustine Quotes

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Life is an incurable disease.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

When I was in my 20s, and even though I was studying medicine, I didn't ever really think that my body would fail. Now I'm in my 40s, I have to face a different reality - I, like everyone else, am slowly falling apart.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

Everybody is doing the best things possible to still healthy and to play as long as possible.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.