Seneca the Younger Quotes

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Hospitals are about healing.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

I was cured all right.

The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.

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

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

All should take care of the sick

When the sick person arrives, before being put to bed, he shall confess his sins, if he is strong enough and if there is a confessor, and he shall also receive the Eucharist if the confessor advises it. In no other way shall anyone who is sick be admitted to the hospital.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.

In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through.

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

In one way, I want to heal people.

I was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

I feel like, with how medicine is evolving, something will be out there soon that can help you heal from arthritis. That might be what helps my longevity and pushes me to keep performing.

People are extremely vulnerable when they're brought into the hospital. When you see people in those moments, it's a privilege to watch that and learn from it.