Illness/mental

Famous quotes containing the words illness and/or mental:

    “Thou wouldst be great;
    Art not without ambition, but without
    The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly
    That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
    And yet wouldst wrongly win.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “see the shaky future grow familiar
    in the pinched, indigenous faces
    of these thoroughbred mental cases,
    twice my age and half my weight.
    We are all old-timers,
    each of us holds a locked razor.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)