Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about… — Charlotte Dawson
In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one's work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part… — Marva Dawn
A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness. — George W. Bush
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer
Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of… — Eleanor Roosevelt
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it?… — Abraham Maslow
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us much about man’s… — Abraham Maslow
Nothing more isolating than a mental illness. — Hannibal
Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me… — Sonia Sotomayor
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness. — Arlen Specter
I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have… — Ayrton Senna
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional… — Jim Stovall
Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most… — Oscar Romero
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification… — Kay Redfield Jamison
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. — Unknown Author
Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story. — Unknown Author
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. — Norman Cousins
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. — Alan Bennett
To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is… — Dale Murphy
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as… — Ann Radcliffe
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. — Albert Camus
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no… — John Fowles
My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals -… — Oprah Winfrey
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living… — Marya Hornbacher

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