Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick… — W. Somerset Maugham
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. — Gustave Flaubert
I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is,… — Ken Kesey
Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness? — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we — Sivananda
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy,… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair,… — Susanna Kaysen
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass… — David Foster Wallace
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every… — Joko Beck
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive… — Kay Redfield Jamison
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness… — Barbara Kingsolver
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the… — Thomas Moore
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness.… — Paulo Coelho
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! — Eric Jerome Dickey
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness… — Leo Buscaglia

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