Famous quotes containing the words illness and/or death:
“...his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 17:17.
“One is apt to be discouraged by the frequency with which Mr. Hardy has persuaded himself that a macabre subject is a poem in itself; that, if there be enough of death and the tomb in one’s theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)