Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age… — Joan D. Vinge
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. — Marcia Angell
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Age and illness made one a dualist — Ursula K. Le Guin
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because… — Tammy Baldwin
Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain. — Tan Twan Eng
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert
If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid. — Bernie Siegel
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it? — Saint Augustine
Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself. — Carl Jung
For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed. — Honore de Balzac
All of us are crazy in one or another way. — Theodore Isaac Rubin
Any breakdown is a breakthrough. — Marshall McLuhan
Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence. — Saul Bellow
Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical… — James Morcan
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman. — Seneca the Younger
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. — Thomas Szasz
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess… — Samuel Johnson
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick — Ben Jonson
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. — Alexander Pope
... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well. — Gilda Radner
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding. — Norman Cousins
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks. — Pat Conroy
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. — John Steinbeck

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