quotes about Illness
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
-- Abbe Pierre -
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
-- Adam Ant -
Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
-- Andrew Solomon -
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
-- Annette Funicello -
illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
-- Bernadette PetersSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
Heart disease is a food-borne illness.
-- Caldwell Esselstyn -
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
-- Carlo Collodi -
To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.
-- Caroline Myss -
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It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
-- Carolyn Wheat -
People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
-- Cary Cooper -
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
-- Charles Bukowski -
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
-- Chris Shays -
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Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.
-- Cornelia Meigs -
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,
-- Craig Johnson -
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
-- Dennis Potter -
Everything is already healed, except in the dream of illness. Let the illusion go, in exchange for peace.
-- Doreen Virtue -
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Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
-- Edvard Munch -
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
-- Edvard MunchSource : "The Man and the Artist".
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Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
-- Ernest MandelSource : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
-- Fran Drescher -
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Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
-- Frances Hardinge -
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
-- Francis Collins -
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
-- Francoise Sagan -
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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
-- Gail DeversSource : "Gail Devers: 'A girl asked what was wrong with me. She said I looked like a monster'". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2007.
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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
-- George McGovern -
It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
-- George Michael -
If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.
-- George Vaillant -
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... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.
-- Gilda Radner -
When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.
-- Graeme Obree -
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
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There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.
-- Harlan Coben -
When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.
-- Harriet Lerner -
it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
-- Harriet Martineau -
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Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.
-- Helen WaddellSource : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
-- Hosea Ballou -
The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness
-- Ignatius Loyola -
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Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.
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Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
-- Iris Murdoch -
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
-- Irvin S. Cobb -
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
-- Irving Stone -
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a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it
-- Ivan Turgenev -
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
-- Jane Roberts -
Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.
-- Judith Orloff -
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
-- Karl KrausSource : Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
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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.
-- Kate Millett -
I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.
-- Katie Price -
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.
-- Kenneth H. Cooper -
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Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.
-- Kris Carr -
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
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Illness is the proving ground of friendship.
-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin -
WHEN “I†IS REPLACED WITH “WE†EVEN ILLNESS BECOMES WELLNESS.
-- Malcolm X -
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
-- Marcel Proust -
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Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.
-- Margaret Prescott MontagueSource : Margaret Prescott Montague (1917). “Twenty Minutes of Reality: An Experience, with Some Illuminating Letters Concerning it”
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Chronic disease is a food borne illness.
-- Mark Hyman, M.D.Source : "Pharmageddon: Can a New Weight Loss Drug Really Save Us?" by Mark Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.
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Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
-- Mark Hyman, M.D.Source : FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jun 01, 2012
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A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.
-- Martha OstensoSource : Martha Ostenso (1938). “The Mandrake Root”
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When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
-- Mary Jane WardSource : Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”
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My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.
-- Max BeckmannSource : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
-- Maya Angelou -
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He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.
-- Maya Banks -
You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.
-- Michael Landon -
I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.
-- Michael Milken -
I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.
-- Mike DeWine -
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I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
-- Mira BartokSource : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster
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God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.
-- Muhammad Ali -
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
-- Naguib Mahfouz -
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Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
-- Natalia GinzburgSource : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing
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... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.
-- Patty Duke -
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.
-- Ricky Hatton -
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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
-- Robert Smithson -
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
-- Rudolf Steiner -
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Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
-- Said NursiSource : Said Nursi (2008). “The Gleams: Reflections on Qur'anic Wisdom and Spirituality”
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Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we
-- Sivananda -
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
-- Spike MilliganSource : Spike Milligan (2004). “The compulsive Spike Milligan”
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each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.
-- Storm Jameson -
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Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
-- Susan MinotSource : "Author Q&A". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. September 7, 1999.
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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.
-- Susannah McCorkle -
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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
-- Tony Judt -
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
-- Tony Snow -
Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
-- Uma Thurman -