“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
“Amor fati: that is my innermost nature. And as regards my long sickness, do I not owe to it unutterably more than I owe to my health?Friedrich Nietzsche
“A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. William Shakespeare
“Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed. John Donne
“The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.John Bunyan