Best 531 quotes in «illness quotes» category

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

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.

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.

I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

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

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.

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.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

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

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

Illness cannot exist in a body that has harmonious thoughts.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts.

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.

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

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

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

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

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

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

It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.

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.

It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.

Just look at the list of who the lowest-paid people are. Pediatricians are at the bottom. You would also look at internists. You would look at psychiatrists. You would look at family physicians, HIV specialists. People who take care of chronic illnesses by seeing people carefully over time, those are the people who get the least money. The people who have the most are people like orthopedic surgeons, interventional cardiologists. And my point isn't that there is something wrong with heroism.

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

I was just sort of moving through time.