Best 531 quotes in «illness quotes» category

Make sickness itself a prayer.

Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.

Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony

Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.

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

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.

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.

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.

Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

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.

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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

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

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

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

Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious-seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world.

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress

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.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

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

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.