Best 531 quotes in «illness quotes» category

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

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

Art is a kind of illness.

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

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

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

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

Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

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.

civilization is a transient sickness.

By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.

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

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.

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.

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.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

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

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

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

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.

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

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

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?

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

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

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

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 suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

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.

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.

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

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

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

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