Illness Quotes - Page 4

• There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.

  Allan Lokos

  Stress

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.143, Penguin

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• Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

  Philip Roth

  Death, Dying, Knows

  Philip Roth, Ross Miller (2008). “Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991”

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• Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Justice, Diversity, Silence

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

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• It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Important, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Marion Fay: Trollope's Works”, p.391, 谷月社

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• Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspiring, Secret, World

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Jul 28, 2012

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• I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

  Christopher Titus

  Uncles, Love Is, Drug

  "Christopher Titus: Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding". Comedy, One-man Show, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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• Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

  Michelle Obama

  Heart, Brain, Legs

  "6 Times Michelle Obama Stood Up For Mental Health" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

  Bernie Siegel

  Healing, Recovery, Foundation

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• I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

  Rebecca Wells

  Gratitude, Believe, Blessing

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• I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Mind, Body, Earth

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers.

  Tommy Douglas

  Country, Attitude, Driving

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during the debate on the proposed Omnibus bill to decriminalize homosexuality, 1968.

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• A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

  Ben H. Winters

  Depression, Blue, Blood

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• ... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

  George Howe Colt

  Depression, Beautiful, Mental Illness

  George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Depression, Selfish, Responsibility

  Eric G. Wilson (2012). “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away”, p.128, Sarah Crichton Books

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• ... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I lie still like this for long enough, then I'll be dead when I finally wake again, and nothing can ever again torment me, beset me, or present me with evidence of my baseness and decay. That thought is the only one that can comfort me.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Lying, Tired

  Christer Kihlman (1990). “The blue mother”

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• The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Recovery, Simple

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• Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

  Judith Peacock

  Depression, Cancer, Heart

  Judith Peacock, Jackie Casey (2000). “Depression”, p.4, Capstone

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• I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.

  Betsy Lerner

  Depression, Brain, Desire

  Betsy Lerner (2004). “Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while insanity rushed like spring flood through the upper layer of his soul, roaring and crashing, leaving terrible destruction in its wake, a deserted, ravaged country. No, he hadn't been crazy, but something inside him had been crazy.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Country, Crazy

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• Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

  Rebecca Wells

  Depression, People, Earth

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, People, Firsts

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• We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Strong, Tides

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• While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

  Kate Cann

  Mental Illness, Obsession, Oblivion

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• If you look at it on just a very cold scale, corporations and the government do not care about the poor. So in what's considered a poor area, you got to look at things. What's going on there? The actual environment is sick, and sickly, and causes illness.

  Mr. Lif

  Sick, Care, Cold

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