Best 531 quotes in «illness quotes» category

civilization is a transient sickness.

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.

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.

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

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

Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.

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.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

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

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 begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we