My Illness Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. — Lance Armstrong
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So,… — Lee Atwater
I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I… — Yayoi Kusama
I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness — Patty Duke
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels. — Fran Drescher
Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep… — Ian Curtis
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that… — Ville Valo
I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you. — Franz Kafka
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration. — Mark Twain
Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point about the difference… — Morrie Schwartz
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality. — John Wilmot
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in… — Charles Dickens
Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear… — Susannah McCorkle
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased. — Kurt Vonnegut
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of… — Douglas Bloch
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe. — Laura Hillenbrand
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing. — Tony Judt
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art… — Edvard Munch

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