Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which… — Charles Bukowski
Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does… — Eleanor of Aquitaine
Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness,… — Javier MarÃas
I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether… — John Edward
I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956. — Kenneth H. Cooper
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased. — Kurt Vonnegut
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only… — Paula McLain
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is… — Pete Earley
Cancer is just a word that creates fear. Forget about that word, and let's just focus on balancing your body. All illnesses are just symptoms… — Anita Moorjani
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III. — Naguib Mahfouz
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life… — Norman Cousins
I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be… — Rebecca Wells
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally… — Scott Stossel
He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the… — Yukio Mishima
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. — Chris Shays
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome. — Max Beckmann
"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome… — Patrick Ness
In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health… — Sheldon Whitehouse
And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some… — Sherman Alexie
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion… — Alonzo Mourning
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments… — David Brin
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the… — Hans Eysenck
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book. — Irving Stone

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