Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found… — Elyn Saks
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing… — Iain McGilchrist
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people… — Kate Morton
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover — Marcel Proust
Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place… — Richard Russo
Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can… — Rosalynn Carter
A fatal recovery from a promising illness — Thomas Boston
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness,… — Anne Fortier
When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. — Bernadette Peters
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression,… — David Thewlis
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. — Elyn Saks
A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine.… — Eugene Mirman
We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the… — Harvey V. Fineberg
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of… — Joan Didion
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be… — Kay Redfield Jamison
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables. — Michael Pollan
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to… — Pete Earley
The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors… — W G Sebald
Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be addressed via interventions… — Jed Diamond
In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at… — Bernard Jensen
I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the… — David Rakoff
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? — Walker Percy
Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns… — Ori Hofmekler
Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them. — Aldous Huxley
The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his… — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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