Winifred Holtby Quotes

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

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

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

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.

There are some sick people in this world.

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

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

I used to always say teleportation for those times when you want to skip the commute, the traffic, the wait. Now, however, I think I'd really love the power to just heal people. Heal sickness, sadness, and pain. It's really all the world needs.

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

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

How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?” He made no response. “The same amount of terrible?

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.

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.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

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.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

Despair often breeds disease.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.