A quote by Tom Robbins

E mais ainda: o senhor também é o médico que tem de zelar por si mesmo. Mas em toda doença há muitos dias nos quais o médico nada pode fazer a não ser esperar.

When health becomes an identity, sickness becomes not something that happens to you, but who you are.

But those who seemed to meet their illness in their heart instead of their mind appeared to have a radically different experience.

When your life reaches the state of emergency and the only thing you can think to do is to end it, maybe the thing to do is break

On the other hand, illness makes us adventurers, in language and imagination; we are pleased to abandon concision and coherence. Above all, so it seems as “On Being Ill” starts to mimic the shape of its own beginning, illness frees us to fall back on the pillows and give up pretending to the logical progression of our thoughts.