Best 531 quotes in «illness quotes» category

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

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

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

We need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering.

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

Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

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

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

While doing visits to hospitals, I have prayed over children with life threatening illnesses and continue to bring Jesus to every stage I walk on.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

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.

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

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

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

You're never too old to be crazy.

Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Abby was saying that all her illness had done was to make her love Link and Daddy more . And appreciate everything more. And to understand , in a way she never had before, that death was a natural part of life, just like the seasons in nature. And everybody’s job was to love life while you had it and never to take anything for granted. It was hard to remember to do that, but it was worth it to try.

Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.

A chronic invalid has but one thought about his identity: He doesn't want to be a sick man. The rest of the discussion seems frivolous to him-an immense privilege of the healthy. Still, I'm a novelist, and so I pursue it.

Active faith is having the wisdom to know that you can develop future knowledge to alleviate your currently incurable sickness.

- Ali, zapravo, čemu sve ovo, Robi? - Zato što se čovek ne predaje. Čovek je jači od sudbine sve dotle dok se ne preda. To je staro vojničko pravilo.

Allora, come va il tuo libro, Ruth?' mi ha chiesto Timmy. 'Ruth vuol fare la scrittrice' ha spiegato a Packy. In realtà io non volevo fare la scrittrice, volevo fare la lettrice, aspirazione assai più rara. Ma sai com'è, una cosa tira l'altra.

A long walk is a slow remembering of how profound and wonderful life is; God is everywhere and in everything. Wherever I look I am looking at God.

A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion".

Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.

An apple a day feeds the tapeworm to stay.

And the deal with so many chronic illnesses is that most people won't want to believe you. They will tell you that you look great, that it might be in your head only, that it is likely stress, that everything is okay. None of these are the right things to say to someone whose entire existence is a fairly consistent torture of the body and mind. They say it because they are well-intentioned usually, because they wish you the best, but they also say it because you make them uncomfortable. Your existence is evidence of death. . . .

And suddenly I was seized with a desire, a craving, something more furious and more imperious than I had ever felt before—to live! I want to live! I will live. I clenched my teeth, my hands, concentrated my whole being in this wild, grief-stricken endeavour towards existence.

..and though my internal organs were Barry White, my stamina had skipped CDs and decided to be more Vanilla Ice.

Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult body.

Are you past pity? If you have consciousness now, if I something I can call "you" has something like "consciousness," I doubt you remember the last days. I play them over and over: I lift your wasted body onto the commode, your arms looped around my neck, aiming your bony bottom so that it will not bruise on a rail. Faintly you repeat, "Momma, Momma.

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.

As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.

As for the absence of recovery, as for death, there are machines that are not meant for the road.

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.

A smart patient realizes that the person most capable of diagnosing and treating their health issues is themselves.