About Quote by Siri Hustvedt

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind…

— Marcia Angell

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

— Seneca the Younger

How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and…

— Jonathan Franzen

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

— John Green

“And someone else wrote me, "What I want is to know your own experience of illness." Why the interest? People on their ailments are…

— Nan Shin

The cure to your self is that you are not yours.

— John de Ruiter

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

— Tony Snow

I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“Gaining insight or awareness is an important part of the getting-well process. Chapter 7 offers several exercises in self-awareness, designed to put you in…

— Jonathan Berent

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

— Jane Roberts

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

— Aberjhani