Illness Quotes - Page 17

• He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Disappointment, Sadness, Past

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

  Max Beckmann

  Animal, Overcoming

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

  Patrick Ness

  Army, Thinking, People

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• The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

  David Brin

  Essence, Patterns, Emotion

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• 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?

  Joan D. Vinge

  Worry, Age, Woe

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• Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

  Marcia Angell

  Illness And Death, Patient, Approach

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• I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Childhood, Three, Months

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• Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Memories, Brain, Eating

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• The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

  Saint Augustine

  Mind, Mental Illness, Command

  "The Confessions of St. Augustine".

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• All of us are crazy in one or another way.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Crazy, Way, Mental Illness

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• Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mental Illness, Breakthrough, Breakdown

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, Medicine, People

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• It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sometimes, Mental Illness, Madmen

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• The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

  Alexander Pope

  Mind, Mental Illness, Finest

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.311

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• Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

  Norman Cousins

  Essentials, Disease, Panic

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• The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

  Arlen Specter

  Cost, Care, Way

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• I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.

  Ayrton Senna

  Suffering, Cost, Want

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• I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional trauma of a serious illness even though they may never fully regain their physical capabilities. Which is the greater healing? Which is the better recovery? If I had the option of choosing between a mediocre life with eyesight or the life I have today, even though I am blind, I'd stay blind and keep the life I have.

  Jim Stovall

  Recovery, Healing, Emotional

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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Loss, Luxury

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press

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• My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

  Sarah Lancashire

  Depression, Writing, Twenties

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• Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story.

  Margiad Evans

  Inspirational, Adventure, Voyages

  Margiad Evans (1952). “A ray of darkness”

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• Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

  Alan Bennett

  Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Bores

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Untold Stories”, p.473, Faber & Faber

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• To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

  Dale Murphy

  Cancer, Athlete, Fighting

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