{"quotes":[{"text":"I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots of them went to Ward 34 on the top floor. She said she thought that was a silly place to put people with bad bones who had such trouble walking and climbing stairs.","author":"David Almond","tags":["arthritis","hospital","ill","illness","logic","unwell"],"id":20125,"author_id":"David+Almond"},{"text":"This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["centuryitis","change","family","humor","ill","illness","life","man","mom","mother","relationships","sick","sleep","sleeping","surreal"],"id":28363,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aids","antiretroviral","antiretroviral-therapies","antiretroviral-therapy","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","arv","arvs","cd4-cells","cd4-count","cd4-t-lymphocytes","cellular-immunity","dead","death","die","disease","diseases","funny","hiv","hiv-aids","hiv-negative","hiv-positive","human-immunodeficiency-virus","humor","humour","ill","illness","illnesses","immune","immune-system","immunity","joke","jokes","satire","sick","sickness","standard-antiretroviral-therapy","virus","viruses"],"id":55546,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["cities","city","doubts","government","governments","ill","illness","induce","inducing","into","no","population","populations","radiation","segment","segments","sick","sickness","their","there","west","western","willfully"],"id":98320,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"At the same time that a massive deployment of biologically harmful radio frequency (RF) radiation devices across the mass population has occurred, we see the reduction of health care for the poor, sick and elderly.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["across","biologically","care","deployment","device","devices","elderly","frequency","harmful","health","ill","mass","massive","occurred","poor","population","radiation","radio","reduction","rf","same","see","sick","time","we"],"id":105623,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["age","change","disease","end","ill","life","normal","terminal"],"id":111543,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque. With this sadness it was different. I felt that I needed to nurture and protect it from people's understanding. I wanted Susy's sympathy because I wanted comfort and to feel less alone, and yet I also didn't want it—I didn't want my personal grief to be part of something universal right then.","author":"Olivia Sudjic","tags":["grief","ill","olivia-sudjic","personal","sadness","sick","suffering","sympathy","title","understanding"],"id":121249,"author_id":"Olivia+Sudjic"},{"text":"To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["ambition","desire","health","ill","illness","sickness","wish","wishes"],"id":125979,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["daily","eventually","ill","illness","indoor","indoors","make","sick","sickness","stay","staying","will"],"id":129628,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["accelerate","accelerated","aggressive","alzheimer","alzheimers","brain","brains","cancer","die","disease","dying","fatal","from","hundred","ill","illness","like","one","sick","sickness","speed","speeded","times","tumor","up"],"id":156485,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}