A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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.
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.