Illness Quotes - Page 27

• In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

  Alastair Campbell

  Stars, Media, World

  "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also the site of illnesses and strains. (...) [I]t is an action-system, a mode of praxis, and its practical immersion in the interactions of day-to-day life is an essential part of the sustaining of a coherent sense of self-identity.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Feelings, Identity

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

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• Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, Everyday, World

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• To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Hate, Peculiar

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.78, Verso

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• I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Thinking, People, Maintenance

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• The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cancer, Serious Illness, Negative

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• When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially. I am thankful for everything I have spiritually. I thank God for allowing me to experience these things, even the experiences that may not seem so positive, such as developing an illness. I may not understand why I have the illness, but I sense that it is there for a purpose, and so I thank God for it. I ask Him to allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness so that I can see the good that comes from everything.

  Betty Eadie

  Morning, Self, New Day

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• I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.

  Lois Lowry

  Brother, Thinking, Doctors

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• Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

  Mary Jane Ward

  Long Ago, Snakes, Insane Person

  Mary Jane Ward (1946). “The snake pit”

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• It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.

  Paul Waldman

  Government, Serious Illness, People

  "The health care reality conservatives ignore" by Paul Waldman, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2013.

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Depression, Heart, Disease

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• Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

  Steve Schirripa

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Steve Schirripa (2014). “Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.

  Demi Lovato

  Tired, Men, Sick

  Demi Lovato @ddlovato, twitter.com. November 12, 2014.

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• Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life's questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person's brain.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Serious Illness

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all living things respond to light. The Almighty has provided everything in nature. Observe nature and you will grow. The cures of all illnesses are found in nature in the shapes of the body parts they were created to cure.

  Suzy Kassem

  Flower, Animal, Light

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• 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.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Self, Technique, Body

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• I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it's going to hurt everyone around them. I've kept so much inside that I've literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it-- not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others.

  Michael Angelakos

  Hurt, Thinking, Medicine

  "Rite of Passion" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com.

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• Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

  Edvard Munch

  Mental Health, Accomplished

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• I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

  Robbie Williams

  Abuse, Mental Illness, Cocaine

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• Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Loneliness, Men, Rejection

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• With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some peace of mind when they send their children off to school in the morning, .. Since children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Morning, Children, Believe

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• Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Psychology, Understanding, Technique

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• I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

  Chris Shays

  War, Thinking, Causes

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• Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Real, Creativity, Imagination

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.64, Studio Beckett Publications

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