Illness Quotes - Page 32

• In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

  Bernard Jensen

  Lying, Years, Roots

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• I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.

  David Rakoff

  Betrayal, Rocks, Challenges

  David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.20, Anchor

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• Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

  Walker Percy

  Real, People, Disaster

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns of animals that he hunts, in order for us to heal, to achieve and maintain a state of mental and physical health,we must be in touch with our body and be aware of the symptoms of illness. Our ability to heal, and the healing process itself, should never be taken for granted. Vanity often keeps us from accepting that we’ll all inevitably face cycles of being weaker and stronger,sicker and healthier.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Taken, Healing, Warrior

  Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.11, North Atlantic Books

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• Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Health, Men, Use

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Health, Men, Doubt

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.147, Shambhala Publications

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• Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Adversity, Essence

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• Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Stress, Harmony

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• These Jews who run things, who are producing this mental illness ­­teenage suicide...all these Jewish sicknesses...that's nothing new. The Talmud's full of things like sex with boys and girls.

  David Duke

  Girl, Suicide, Running

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• Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

  Milan Kundera

  Self, Long, Hatred

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• Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Home, Tired

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• Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

  Deb Caletti

  Beautiful, Two, Long

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Medicine, Perfect, Degrees

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• The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

  John Green

  Sadness, Joy, Feels

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.64, Penguin

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• "Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing."

  Libba Bray

  Men, Promise, Causes

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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• Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It’s like fashion, like everything’s already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can’t get a diagnosis for.

  Mary Roach

  Fashion, Crazy, People

  "Why “Asshole” Is High Praise - and Other Anatomy Lessons With Mary Roach". Interview with Sarah Zhang, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2013.

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• The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.

  Pete Earley

  Running, Yelling, Talking

  Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.253, Penguin

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• The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

  Tom Rath

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.6, Missionday, LLC

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• Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Men, Blood

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

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• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

  Edward Gorey

  Distance, Twilight, Party

  Edward Gorey (1953). “The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel”, Harcourt

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• Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Children, Autism, Improvement

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Betrayal, Hate

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• He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Fall, Rivers

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• R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

  John Thomas Sladek

  Blood, Law, Dozen

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• Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.

  Nick Hornby

  Loneliness, Opposites, Trying

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.157, Penguin UK

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