Illness Quotes

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.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

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

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

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.

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

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.

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

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

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

People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.