Illness Quotes

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....

She never allowed the external world to change her soul, that was her magic.

That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease.

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.

Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.

Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never remove the pain, will you still trust Me?

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If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say

If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.

I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.

Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.

You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

Forgive me, " I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.

Not only a man without hand is handicapped but also a man without health.

They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring, And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Esther so badly wanted to save her father, to bring him back from the half death that had become his life. Every time he reminded her that he couldn’t be saved, Esther’s heart broke a little more.

What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.

Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry

This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.

The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.

Human mind and body metals appear to be lost through radio frequency exposure and I call this hypothesis: Internal Human Corrosion

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

I find myself enjoying being alone a lot of the time, people come and people go and you have to find a way to be ok with both.

Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?

The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.

Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam

Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

If you have a strong stomachread on.

Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues" say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over.

I certainly don’t buy into the idea that positive attitudes can somehow mysteriously directly influence physical health outcomes.