Deteriorating Health Quotes

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

We're gonna get weaker. That's already happened. They used to say, you know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now they're saying eat five fruits. That's evidence. You can't argue with that.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.

We have to deal with small injuries that get worse as time goes by.

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?

He was so handsome,but he didn't look well.He reminded her of a cigarette.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.