The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some sick people in this world.
The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.