Sickness

Quotes



When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity
Some remedies are worse than the disease
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick
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