William Shakespeare Quotes About Sickness

• My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

  William Shakespeare

  Long, Sickness, All Things

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [191]

• If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, War, Night

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

• Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, War, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

• It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;"

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Teeth, Sickness

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.384

• Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, People

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

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