Joseph Brodsky Quotes

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

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

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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.

If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

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.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

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

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

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

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body.

People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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.