Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters.


Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures, The Conduct of Life, Consideration by the Way (p. 1088), The Library of America. 1983


For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters.

For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters.

For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters.

For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters.