Illness Quotes

Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the natur...

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. ...

I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince my...

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I h...

He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagi...

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce...

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need ...

It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being fr...

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hos...

Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than ...

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. Santone, then, cannot be blamed for this cold...

I did not know what she suffered from, but I knew that her malady must have been horrible; I knew th...

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life...

I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine se...

...I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that ...

You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wastin...

She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irri...

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despit...

(On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".

The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the...

But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would...

Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it do...

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citiz...

The tongues of hell are dull.

I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, h...

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...

Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they ...

Far rather would she that he were dead! She could not sit beside him when he stared so and did not s...

It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am...

We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You ...

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we hav...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to...

If illness' end be health regained then I Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.

The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I bel...

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporation...

I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to ...

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,...

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, what...

Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given...

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...

My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwe...

You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...

He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule p...

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb ...

In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both e...

The "Hazeldean heart" was a proverbial boast in the family; the Hazeldeans privately considered it m...

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not...

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you ...

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...

Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it pre...

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And pa...

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of...

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her whi...