Illness Quotes
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.
I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
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.
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
Everything is already healed, except in the dream of illness. Let the illusion go, in exchange for peace.
When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.