Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. — Edvard Munch
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.… — Anais Nin
A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to… — Meghan O'Rourke
You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance… — Mehmet Oz
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer. — Jane Pauley
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness. — Gail Porter
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather… — Terry Pratchett
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different… — Marcel Proust
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of… — Eric Ries
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. — Jane Roberts
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko
I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider… — Curt Schilling
Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. — Albert Schweitzer
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. — George Bernard Shaw
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. — Susan Sontag
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who… — Sonia Sotomayor
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. — Anthony Storr
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then,… — David Suzuki
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of… — Thomas Szasz
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. — Thomas Szasz
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but… — Thomas Szasz
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. — Thomas Szasz
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of… — Lewis Thomas

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