Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

I am ill at these numbers. — William Shakespeare
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their… — David Auburn
The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness. — Raquel Cepeda
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day. — Kurt Vonnegut
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over. — Tony Judt
It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love. — Alexander McCall Smith
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up… — Howard Hodgkin
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of… — Susan Sontag
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality. — John Wilmot
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves;… — Blaise Pascal
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Bryant H. McGill
I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse… — C.S. Lewis
A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant… — Diane Ackerman
I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special… — Jennifer Gilmore
When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk… — Mark Vonnegut
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 Bartok
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing… — Russell Shorto
I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are… — Jane Kenyon
...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything,… — Jeremy Clarkson
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get… — Marian Keyes
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in… — Charles Dickens
Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when… — Lauren Groff

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