Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]
A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.
If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
When I got sick, it threw everything off course.
As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.
From the age of 40, I went through illness for four and a half years. I tried to keep working through it as much as I could, but I was physically not able to do it as much, and if you look sick, it's hard to get a job.
It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.
