“Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.”
“I had hoped for grace," I said, "not immortality"I wonder why so many people view sickness as a moral test. It has nothing to do with morals or grace. It's a physical test, and usually we lose.”
“We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.”
“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”
“Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.”
“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”