Famous quotes containing the words thackeray, illness and/or death:
“Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present—henceforth?—the subject to which you are condemned.”
—Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)