Best 531 quotes in «illness quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

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.

I will find a way out or make one.

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

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.

Love is a grave mental illness.

Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

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.

Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

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

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

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

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

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 is just stress from not living in harmony

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Nothing more isolating than a mental 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.

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.

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