Illness Quotes

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

Illness cannot exist in a body that has harmonious thoughts.

You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

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.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

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

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]

My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.