Illness Quotes
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MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. (Quote by - Annette Funicello)
I don't think I had a chance to show my best - that's the really disappointing part, not being able to find out. The illness made me me. Because of it, I think I achieved a lot more because I had to work harder for it. (Quote by - Jonah Lomu)
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly. (Quote by - Polly Toynbee)
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956. (Quote by - Kenneth H. Cooper)
If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter. (Quote by - Sun Myung Moon)
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality. (Quote by - John Hutton)
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life. (Quote by - Daniel Craig)
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. (Quote by - Lance Armstrong)
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line. (Quote by - Bernard Sanders)
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. (Quote by - Abbe Pierre)
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. (Quote by - Jane Roberts)
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick (Quote by - Ben Johnson)
I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality. (Quote by - Pierre Loti)
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)
We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her. (Quote by - Bob Costas)
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof. (Quote by - Kate Millett)
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. (Quote by - Jack Henry Abbott)
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. (Quote by - Hans Eysenck)
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. (Quote by - Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevski)
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton)
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness. (Quote by - Jack Osbourne)
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. (Quote by - Dennis Potter)
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. (Quote by - Lauren Bacall)
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. (Quote by - George Weinberg)
We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us. (Quote by - Michael Crichton)
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable. (Quote by - Heather Donahue)
Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us (Quote by - Jonathan Miller)
Art is a kind of illness. (Quote by - Giacomo Puccini)
There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that. (Quote by - Alan Thicke)
The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. (Quote by - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. (Quote by - Mary Wesley)
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones? (Quote by - Joan D. Vinge)
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. (Quote by - Marilyn Ferguson)
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. (Quote by - Herodotus)
You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. (Quote by - Joni Mitchell)
I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to? (Quote by - Curt Schilling)
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty. (Quote by - Ellen Wilkinson)
It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. (Quote by - Lee Atwater)
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. (Quote by - Richard J. Codey)
I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup. (Quote by - Jonah Lomu)
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels. (Quote by - Fran Drescher)
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. (Quote by - Kate Millett)
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. (Quote by - Sima Qian)
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it. (Quote by - Mother Goose)
The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy. (Quote by - Neil Cavuto)
Cancer , like any other illness, is a bore. (Quote by - Alan Bennett)
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness. (Quote by - Ville Valo)
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way. (Quote by - Marcia Wallace)
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. (Quote by - John Wanamaker)
I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic. (Quote by - Carrie Fisher)
I'm looking forward to getting back out there and playing against Australia in the Ashes [days before he returned home with 'stress related illness'] (Quote by - Marcus Trescothick)
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us. (Quote by - Patti Davis)
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. (Quote by - Salvatore Quasimodo)
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present. (Quote by - Naomi Judd)
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. (Quote by - Karen Duffy)
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. (Quote by - Francis Parker Yockey)
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. (Quote by - Edvard Munch)
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. (Quote by - Adam Ant)
We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been. (Quote by - Michael Burgess)
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness. (Quote by - Karen Duffy)
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital. (Quote by - Karen Duffy)
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. (Quote by - Edward Stanley)
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia. (Quote by - Margaret Chan)
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness. (Quote by - Ornette Coleman)
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams. (Quote by - Annie Lennox)
When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. (Quote by - Bernadette Peters)
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. (Quote by - M. Scott Peck)
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live? (Quote by - Karen Duffy)
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury. (Quote by - Andrew von Eschenbach)
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change (Quote by - Herodotus)
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. (Quote by - African Proverb)
They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. (Quote by - C. Everett Koop)
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems. (Quote by - David Coverdale)
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness. (Quote by - Patty Duke)
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything. (Quote by - Lee Atwater)
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. (Quote by - Christopher Shays)
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love. (Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)
Factions are a sign of illness in a party. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. (Quote by - Holbrook Jackson)
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
You can die of the cure before you die of the illness. (Quote by - Michael Landon)
I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. (Quote by - Christopher Shays)
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. (Quote by - Sholem Asch)
Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer. (Quote by - Susannah McCorkle)
I won't capitalise from Tresco's illness. (Quote by - Paul Collingwood)
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. (Quote by - Mary Garden)
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you. (Quote by - Tony Snow)
I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future. (Quote by - John Edward)
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. (Quote by - Ornette Coleman)
A lot of people don't realise that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it off. (Quote by - Jonathan Davis)
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it. (Quote by - Albert Speer)
In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization. (Quote by - John Conyers)
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. (Quote by - Richard Carlson)
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business. (Quote by - Jack Kevorkian)
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! (Quote by - Patsy Cline)
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. (Quote by - Howard Hodgkin)
This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible. (Quote by - Daryl Hall)
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. (Quote by - Ann Druyan)
