Illness/physical

Famous quotes containing the words illness and/or physical:

    “To you illness is negligible. You have learned that you can dominate yourself. You know that your body lags, but your soul proceeds upon its triumphant way.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)