Best 531 quotes in «illness quotes» category

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 felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

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 you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.

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.

Illness cannot exist in a body that has harmonious thoughts.

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

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 sets the stage for the opening of our hearts.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

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.

Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

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.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

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

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 most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I will find a way out or make one.

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.

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

Love is a grave mental illness.