Quote by: Oliver Sacks

For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill--not well. Unless, as George Eliot does, they have some intimation of 'wrongness' or danger, either through knowledge or association, or the very excess of excess. Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.


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Author Bio


  • NameOliver Sacks
  • Descriptionphysician, author
  • AliasesOliver Wolf Sacks
  • BornJuly 9, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Chemist; Neuroscientist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; George Polk Award