Health Paradox Quotes

As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought it was paradoxical.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.

We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter.

Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.