Illness Quotes - Page 24

• That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sweaters, House, Hook

  Alice Hoffman (2008). “The Third Angel”, p.13, Random House

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• The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crime

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• I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.

  John Forbes Nash

  Careers, Leader, Would Be

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• 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.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Children, Pain, World

  Nnedi Okorafor (2008). “Zahrah the Windseeker”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

  Pamela Sue Martin

  Philosophy, Pneumonia, Serious Illness

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• Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

  David Coverdale

  Taken, Long, Albums

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• Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

  David Perlmutter

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

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• To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Self, Sick, Hazards

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.398, Vintage

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• For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have learned how to enjoy the minute particulars of life once again, the grace of a hot cup of coffee, the presence of a friend, the blessing of having a new cake of soap or an hour without pain. Such humble experience is the stuff that many of the very best stories are made of. If we think we have no stories it is because we have not paid enough attention to our lives. Most of us live lives that are far richer and more meaningful than we appreciate.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Meaningful, Pain, Cancer

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• The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.

  Norman Cousins

  Thinking, People, Way

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• Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

  Robin Hobb

  Communication, Air, Anxiety

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• People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

  Tony Dorsett

  People, Needs, Attention

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• In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

  Virginia Woolf

  Quality, Mystic, Seems

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  Iain McGilchrist

  Years, Culture, World

  Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.436, Yale University Press

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• Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

  James Holman

  Wise, Cups, Bitter

  James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

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• Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

  Marcel Proust

  Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah”

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• Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

  Richard Russo

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.386, Atlantic Books

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• When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

  Bernadette Peters

  People, Hiv, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

  David Thewlis

  Jobs, Worry, Insecurity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

  Eugene Mirman

  Medicine, Bullshit, Comedian

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Gone, World, Prevention

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• One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Eating, Scientist

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.195, Penguin

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• Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

  Pete Earley

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

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• Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be addressed via interventions into those energies and energy fields.

  Jed Diamond

  Healing, Energy, Body

  Jed Diamond, Ph.D. (2014). “Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well”, p.92, North Atlantic Books

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• Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

  Gilles Menage

  Art, Medicine, May

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