Illness/physical

Famous quotes containing the words illness and/or physical:

“...his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 17:17.

“The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men’s inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)