Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

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… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. — Philip Roth
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! — Thomas Carlyle
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so. — Shakti Gawain
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… — Marcel Proust
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness. — Saint Augustine
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. — Hosea Ballou
Art is a kind of illness. — Giacomo Puccini
My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. — Columba Bush
The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;… — Charles R. Swindoll
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit to own a… — John Silber
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the… — Betty Friedan
A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children;… — Saint John Chrysostom
This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to… — Scott Lively
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life. — Paul Tournier
I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I… — Yayoi Kusama
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are… — M. Scott Peck
Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to… — Barbara Brennan
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. — Sima Qian
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague… — Bernard Bolzano
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. — Heather Donahue
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… — Anne Lamott
In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife… — Maya Angelou
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. — Vladimir Lenin

Who Wrote These Illness Quotes

776 authors contributed a total of 1,077 Illness Quotes, led by these top contributors: