Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

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

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

When I was in college, I had a fear of cancer.

When I am not playing, I suffer.

If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.

When you feel low and down, you don't know whom to talk to and go out with.

The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

It's a very lonely place, being an addict.

I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.