Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting,… — Lauren Slater
A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly… — Deena Metzger
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… — Pierre Loti
Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and… — Richard Louv
The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved — Princess Diana
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses… — Donald Kagan
We can and should complain about certain horrors of the modern world, but when it comes to the treatment of mental illness, the advances made… — Rob Delaney
This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older… — Unknown Author
Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death… — Anne Desclos
I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than the center of… — V. Raymond Edman
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death — Walter Willett
If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and… — Ken Wilber
Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for… — Unknown Author
We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only… — Pope Francis
The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing… — John Mortimer
Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep… — Ian Curtis
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a… — Unknown Author
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental… — E. Fuller Torrey
But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this:… — Lance Armstrong
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung
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… — Salvatore Quasimodo
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. — George Weinberg
[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses — Unknown Author
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… — George McGovern

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