If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid. — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who… — Ulisses Soares Copy Share Image
I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. — Annette Funicello Copy Share Image
I have been exposed to a great deal of the issues surrounding PTSD, but what I have learned that is most relevant… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
