Illness famous quotes

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
-- Abbe Pierre

#Grace #Illness #States

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
-- Adam Ant

#Mental Health #Illness

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
-- Alan Bennett

#Cancer #Illness #Bores

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
-- Alice B. Toklas

#Mind #Sometimes #Illness

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
-- Andrew Solomon

#Real #Identity #Illness

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
-- Annette Funicello

#Progressive #Illness

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Illness #Crime

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
-- Bernadette Peters

#People #Helping #Illness

Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Stress #Illness #Harmony

Heart disease is a food-borne illness.
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

#Heart #Disease #Illness

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
-- Carlo Collodi

#Childhood #Woe #Illness

To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.
-- Caroline Myss

#Balance #Illness #Heal

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
-- Carolyn Wheat

#World #Poverty #Illness

People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.
-- Cary Cooper

#People #Want #Illness

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Serious #Illness

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
-- Chris Shays

#War #Causes #Illness

Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.
-- Cornelia Meigs

#Recovery #Illness

If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses,
-- Craig Johnson

#Exercise #Risk #Illness

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
-- Dennis Potter

#Airports #Saws #Illness

Everything is already healed, except in the dream of illness. Let the illusion go, in exchange for peace.
-- Doreen Virtue

#Dream #Illusion #Illness

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
-- Edvard Munch

#Mental Health #Illness #Accomplished

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
-- Edvard Munch

#Anxiety #Ships #Illness

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
-- Ernest Mandel

#Party #Illness #Factions

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
-- Fran Drescher

#Angel #Illness #My Angel

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
-- Frances Hardinge

#Illness #China #Left Behind

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
-- Francis Collins

#Gun #Environment #Illness

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
-- Francis Parker Yockey

#Facts #Mental Illness #Illness

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
-- Francoise Sagan

#Opposites #Impossible #Illness

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
-- Gail Devers

#Disease #Radiation #Illness

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
-- George McGovern

#Evil #Illness #Politician

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
-- George Michael

#Believe #Mental Illness #Illness

If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.
-- George Vaillant

#Want #Firsts #Illness

Art is a kind of illness.
-- Giacomo Puccini

#Art #Kind #Illness

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.
-- Gilda Radner

#Get Well #Cancer #Illness

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.
-- Graeme Obree

#Mental Illness #Illness

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
-- Gustave Flaubert

#Doubt #Madness #Illness

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
-- Hannibal

#Mental Illness #Illness

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.
-- Harlan Coben

#Crazy #Lines #Illness

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.
-- Harriet Lerner

#Anxiety #Illness #Psychiatric

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
-- Harriet Martineau

#Suffering #Causes #Illness

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.
-- Helen Waddell

#Men #Sick #Illness

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
-- Hippocrates

#Blue #Sin #Illness

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
-- Hosea Ballou

#Disease #Illness #Retribution

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness
-- Ignatius Loyola

#Half #Illness #Servant

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.
-- Ignatius Loyola

#Might #Prison #Illness

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
-- Iris Murdoch

#Bears #Illness #Harder

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
-- Irvin S. Cobb

#Witty #Humorous #Illness

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
-- Irving Stone

#Book #Mental Illness #Illness

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it
-- Ivan Turgenev

#Overcoming #Illness #Persons

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

#Self #Illness #Accepted

Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.
-- Judith Orloff

#Opportunity #Emotional #Illness

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
-- Karl Kraus

#Mental Illness #Illness #Therapy

Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
-- Kate Millett

#Believe #Illness #Proof

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.
-- Katie Price

#Psycho #Mental Illness #Illness

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Psychosis #Violence #Illness

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.
-- Kenneth H. Cooper

#Illness

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.
-- Kris Carr

#Stress #Causes #Illness

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Mother #World #Illness

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Mental Illness #Illness #Treats

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

#Suffering #Causes #Illness

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.
-- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#Friendship #Illness #Prove

WHEN “I” IS REPLACED WITH “WE” EVEN ILLNESS BECOMES WELLNESS.
-- Malcolm X

#Wellness #Illness #Replaced

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
-- Marcel Proust

#Illness

Home is the best place to be sick in.
-- Margaret Deland

#Home #Sick #Illness

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.
-- Margaret Prescott Montague

#Eye #Enabling #Illness

Chronic disease is a food borne illness.
-- Mark Hyman, M.D.

#Disease #Illness

Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
-- Mark Hyman, M.D.

#Way #Disease #Illness

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.
-- Martha Ostenso

#Shapes #Sickness #Illness

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
-- Mary Jane Ward

#Sick #Locks #Illness

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Lace #Illness #Break

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.
-- Max Beckmann

#Animal #Overcoming #Illness

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
-- Maya Angelou

#Thinking #Trying #Illness

He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.
-- Maya Banks

#Drug #Illness #Remedy

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.
-- Michael Landon

#Death #Illness #Cures

I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.
-- Michael Milken

#Energy #Illness #Lifestyle

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.
-- Mike DeWine

#Becoming #Illness #Violent

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
-- Mira Bartok

#Helping #Mental Health #Illness

God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is.
-- Muhammad Ali

#Numbers #Illness

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Love Is #Illness #Said

Most illness begins with a negative mind.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Mind #Negative #Illness

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
-- Natalia Ginzburg

#Justice #Silence #Illness

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.
-- Patty Duke

#Night #Mental Illness #Illness

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
-- Pearl S. Buck

#Joy #Sorrow #Illness

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.
-- Ricky Hatton

#Motivation #Fighting #Illness

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
-- Robert Smithson

#Mental Illness #Illness #Process

Literature + Illness = Illness
-- Roberto Bolano

#Hipster #Literature #Illness

civilization is a transient sickness.
-- Robinson Jeffers

#Civilization #Sickness #Illness

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
-- Rudolf Steiner

#World #Illness #Plant

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
-- Said Nursi

#Worry #Criticism #Illness

Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we
-- Sivananda

#Wellness #Illness

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
-- Spike Milligan

#Long #Life Is #Illness

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.
-- Storm Jameson

#Running #Betrayed #Illness

grief is an illness I can't recover from.
-- Sue Grafton

#Grief #Illness

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
-- Susan Minot

#Way #Illness #Behave

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 to be a burden on anyone any longer.
-- Susannah McCorkle

#Believe #Bears #Illness

Depression is a physical illness.
-- Terry Bradshaw

#Illness

A fatal recovery from a promising illness
-- Thomas Boston

#Recovery #Illness

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
-- Tony Judt

#Illness #Masters #Subjects

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

#Sick #Secret #Illness

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
-- Uma Thurman

#Perspective #Mental Illness #Illness