Illness Quotes
The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself.
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
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.
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.
Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.
If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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.
Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.
I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness
Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.
As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.
If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.
That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
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.
