Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power. — Louise Hay
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene. — Ned Beauman
The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about… — Shirley Hazzard
That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters… — Alice Hoffman
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation… — Charlotte Bronte
Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a… — John Forbes Nash
I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh… — Nnedi Okorafor
A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my… — Pamela Sue Martin
Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems. — David Coverdale
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer. — David Perlmutter
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to… — John Calvin
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite… — Martin Seligman
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. — Richard Avedon
It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses. — Frances Hardinge
If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life… — Jenny Downham
Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin. — Lucille Roybal-Allard
Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling… — Robin Hobb
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear… — Susannah McCorkle
People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from… — Tony Dorsett
In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality. — Virginia Woolf
Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine,… — David Agus

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