Illness Quotes - Page 19

• O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of the illness; so also, in the spiritual life, suffering is the thermometer which measures the love of God in a soul.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Spiritual, Jesus, Soul

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

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Jesus, Suffering, Thank God

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• No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Exercise, Our Society, Slim

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• Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Anna Castillo

  Bipolar, Insane, Mental Health

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• The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have to live through them, acknowledge them. You have to give your pain its due.

  Jasinda Wilder

  Pain, Grief, Past

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• A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

  Ben H. Winters

  Depression, Blue, Blood

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• I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Depression, Selfish, Responsibility

  Eric G. Wilson (2012). “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away”, p.128, Sarah Crichton Books

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• I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from outside. It happened so quickly and took me by surprise; sometimes I just turned around and found it there-ah, camarade-unaware it had been waiting for me for days.

  Bryan Mealer

  Depression, Waiting, Darkness

  Bryan Mealer (2008). “All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo”, Bloomsbury USA

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• ... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I lie still like this for long enough, then I'll be dead when I finally wake again, and nothing can ever again torment me, beset me, or present me with evidence of my baseness and decay. That thought is the only one that can comfort me.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Lying, Tired

  Christer Kihlman (1990). “The blue mother”

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• I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.

  Betsy Lerner

  Depression, Brain, Desire

  Betsy Lerner (2004). “Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition." I hoped I suffered from something serious, a clear syndrome, maybe requiring heavy medication and hospitalization. I pictured myself wearing a robe and paper slippers and looking out of a window with bars on it. I wanted to be relieved of the responsibility of taking any action to help myself.

  Ken Dornstein

  Depression, Responsibility, Bars

  Ken Dornstein (2007). “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky”, p.134, Vintage

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• His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while insanity rushed like spring flood through the upper layer of his soul, roaring and crashing, leaving terrible destruction in its wake, a deserted, ravaged country. No, he hadn't been crazy, but something inside him had been crazy.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Country, Crazy

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• Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

  Rebecca Wells

  Depression, People, Earth

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• ... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

  George Howe Colt

  Depression, Beautiful, Mental Illness

  George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Recovery, Simple

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• We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, People, Firsts

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• We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Strong, Tides

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• 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.

  Kate Cann

  Mental Illness, Obsession, Oblivion

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• Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

  Judith Peacock

  Depression, Cancer, Heart

  Judith Peacock, Jackie Casey (2000). “Depression”, p.4, Capstone

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• Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins,
  And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness.
  But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly
  Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.

  Termanology

  Rap, Hip Hop, Chocolate

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• The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Reality, Needs, Awful

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• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Nature, Kindness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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

  Mark Russell

  Political, Politics, Healthcare

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• I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

  Dennis Potter

  Travel, Fear, Airports

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• If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Responsibility, Growth, Conformity

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