Illness Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Believe, Bears, Burden

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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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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

  Elyn Saks

  Lying, Mental Illness, Fortune

  Elyn R. Saks (2007). “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”, p.425, Hachette UK

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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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• True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Thinking, Intelligent

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Important, Diagnosis, Mental Illness

  "Rosalynn Carter: Advocate for the mentally ill". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. August 11, 2010.

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• A fatal recovery from a promising illness

  Thomas Boston

  Recovery

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• ...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

  Anne Fortier

  Taken, Pimples, Facts

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.102, Ballantine 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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• Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

  Elyn Saks

  Numbers, Community, Faces

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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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• This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.4, Vintage

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• Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  People, Facts, Painful

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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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• The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.

  W. G. Sebald

  Taken, Mirrors, Civilization

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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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