Illness Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

  Patti Davis

  Country, Father, Taken

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• Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  Rachel Corrie

  Smell, Apples, Sauce

  "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie".

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• Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Communication, Two, Problem

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• One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

  Alastair Campbell

  People, Four, Mental Illness

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

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• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  Brad Blanton

  Crazy, Emotional, Attachment

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities, Race, Stupidity

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  Grief, Fire, Doe

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• Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.

  Javier Marías

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (1997). “Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me”, p.217, New Directions Publishing

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• I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.

  John Edward

  Believe, Journey, Leaving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, World, Understood

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.257, Dial Press

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• I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

  Paula McLain

  Mother, Rain, Eight

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

  Pete Earley

  Real, Jail, People

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". "On the Road with Lizzie Simon", www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Cancer is just a word that creates fear. Forget about that word, and let's just focus on balancing your body. All illnesses are just symptoms of imbalance. No illness can remain when your entire system is in balance.

  Anita Moorjani

  Cancer, Focus, Balance

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Apr 19, 2012

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• "Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Love Is, Said

  Naguib Mahfouz (2012). “Before the Throne”, p.44, Anchor

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• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

  Scott Stossel

  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him.

  Yukio Mishima

  Struggle, Thinking, Wings

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• But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

  Chris Shays

  War, Causes, Syndromes

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• He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Disappointment, Sadness, Past

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

  Max Beckmann

  Animal, Overcoming

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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