“Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
Edith Wharton
“It looks so fitting today [next] to the candle used last year during the illness of the Holy Father and during the whole time of his funeral. While the Holy Father's personal light may go out through death and transition to heaven, the light of Christ ever burns brightly and it continues through these wonderful symbols [of rose and candle].”
Cardinal Mahony
“An illness to the president is not just a personal matter. It is a devastating public crisis.”
Jerrold Post
“Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”
“A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
