The world is entrapped through uneasiness, not through diseases (illnesses). Diseases (illnesses) are caused by uneasiness. Do the trees get any diseases (illnesses)? Do the crows become paralyzed or have high blood pressure?

There is no disease for which Allah has not sent a cure.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

Illness tells us what we are.

He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Illness knocks a lot of nonsense out of us; it induces humility, cuts us down to size ... When we are a bit scared the salutary effect of sickness is particularly marked. For only when the ... gate grows narrow do some people discover their soul, their God, their life work.

... the drama of sickness.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

Be long sick, that you may be soon hale.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.