"Every medicine is vain."

Illness, Medicine, Suffering, Reality, Weakness

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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Illness, Worth

"I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Illness, Sickness, Strength, Denial, Pain

"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Illness, Passivity, Fear, Death

"Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you haven't let it succeed prematurely."

John Green, American Author

Illness, Disease, Cancer, Truth, Life

"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."

Annette Funicello, American Actress

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"Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying."

John Green, American Author

Illness, Death, Change, Life

"There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer."

John Green, American Author

Illness, Loss, Life, Suffering

"My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner."

John Green, American Author

Illness, Cancer, Identity, Battle, Life

"There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."

Siri Hustvedt, American Novelist

Illness, Culture, Experience, Health

"But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck."

John Green, American Author

Illness, Cancer, Books, Truth, Reality

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"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."

"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting."

"Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you haven't let it succeed prematurely."

"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."

"Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying."

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"My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner."

"There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."

"But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck."

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"The words of truth are simple."

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"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise."

"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

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