Illness Quotes - Page 5

• The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism, Sage

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• No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Exercise, Our Society, Slim

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• The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get worse. You have to live through them, acknowledge them. You have to give your pain its due.

  Jasinda Wilder

  Pain, Grief, Past

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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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• ... 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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• 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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• At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition." I hoped I suffered from something serious, a clear syndrome, maybe requiring heavy medication and hospitalization. I pictured myself wearing a robe and paper slippers and looking out of a window with bars on it. I wanted to be relieved of the responsibility of taking any action to help myself.

  Ken Dornstein

  Depression, Responsibility, Bars

  Ken Dornstein (2007). “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky”, p.134, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is like a box of chocolates, you fill your body with toxins,
  And amoxicillin and penicillin to cure your illness.
  But in realness? These medical companies will get you monthly
  Prescribing me pills that make me ill, just to comfort me.

  Termanology

  Rap, Hip Hop, Chocolate

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• The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

  Mark Russell

  Political, Politics, Healthcare

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• I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

  Dennis Potter

  Travel, Fear, Airports

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• The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Servant Of God, Half, Doctorates

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• Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

  Gillian Flynn

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses.

  Craig Johnson

  Exercise, Risk, Behavior

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• My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Mother, Sick, Poverty

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• We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

  David Agus

  Cancer, Prevention, May

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• Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as if you are living in a fantasy world of a fable. This is an interesting and sad syndrome. I’m sure that I have that syndrome. If it’s not it, then why the heck does my every moment with the ordinary girl feel like a fable?

  Joo Won

  Girl, Interesting, Ordinary

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• Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

  Fran Drescher

  Angel, My Angel, Felt

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• I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

  Karen Duffy

  Running, Fear, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

  Mary Wesley

  Courage, Children, Husband

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• Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Knowing, Taoism

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• Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism

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