Coronary Heart Disease

Famous quotes containing the words coronary, heart and/or disease:

    “Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.”
    —Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)

    “blue bead on the wick,
    there’s that in me that
    burns and chills, blackening
    my heart with its soot,
    I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
    but a different god.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “And this disease that was Swann’s love had so multiplied, it was so intimately tied to all of Swann’s habits, to all his acts, to his thoughts, to his health, to his sleep, to his life, even to what he desired for his afterlife, his love was so much a part of him that it could not be extracted from him without destroying him entirely: as is said in surgery, his love was inoperable.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)