Illness Quotes - Page 30

• I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

  Marian Keyes

  Believe, People, Broken

  15 Copy quote

• I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Writing, Character

  7 Copy quote

• Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Men, Civilization

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “Around the Red Lamp: Medical Life As It Used to Be”, p.47, Fireship Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Flower, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.353

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

  Lauren Groff

  Passion, India, Spain

  7 Copy quote

• If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

  Louise Hay

  Opportunity, Thinking, Use

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.18, Hay House, Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

  Ned Beauman

  Frustration, Gout, Threatening

  "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Loss, Night, Tragedy

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Nerves, Red, Rooms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Thinking, Numbers, Rising

  "Monckton saves the day!". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crime

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  58 Copy quote

• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Bipolar

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Disease, Today, Aids

  9 Copy quote

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

  David Coverdale

  Taken, Long, Albums

  7 Copy quote

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

  David Perlmutter

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

  6 Copy quote

• Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

  John Calvin

  Feet, Medicine, Departure

  38 Copy quote

• People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

  Richard Avedon

  People, Confusion, Roles

  4 Copy quote

• It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dream, Orange, Dust

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

  Frances Hardinge

  China, Left Behind, Behinds

  Frances Hardinge (2014). “Cuckoo Song”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

  Jenny Downham

  Believe, Different, Research

  4 Copy quote

• Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Simple, Blood, Tests

  8 Copy quote