Illness Quotes | Quotes about Illness

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Illness Quote #1

-Speaking about Vaccinations -
If you accept the truth after the fact, the pain will last a life time.
Richard Diaz

Illness Quote #2

..and though my internal organs were Barry White, my stamina had skipped CDs and decided to be more Vanilla Ice.
Matthew Williamson
Illness Quote #3

Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of the dying, sick and poor. It is about normal people with careers, families, and responsibilities, asking 'How can what I already do and what I already am make a difference in lives half a world away?
Hanson
Illness Quote #4

[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the sticks on the stream; helter-skelter with the dead leaves on the lawn, irresponsible and disinterested and able, perhaps for the first time for years, to look round, to look up—to look, for example, at the sky.
Virginia Woolf from her essay On Being Ill
Illness Quote #5

[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe’s, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78)
JeanYves Leloup
Illness Quote #6

08/14/1025h. Dessert Competitions.

08/14/1315h. Illinois State Fair Infirmary; then motel; then Springfield Memorial Medical Center Emergency Room for distention and possible rupture of transverse colon (false alarm); then motel; incapacitated till well after sunset; whole day a washout; incredibly embarrassing, unprofessional; indescribable. Delete entire day.
David Foster Wallace
Illness Quote #7

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...
L.M. Montgomery
Illness Quote #8

A migraine is like having a hangover even before the party starts.
Brenda Priddy
Illness Quote #9

An apple a day feeds the tapeworm to stay.
Brian Spellman
Illness Quote #10

Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult body.
Colleen M. Flanagan
Illness Quote #11

As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.
Edgar Saltus
Illness Quote #12

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.
Jennifer Starzec
Illness Quote #13

Ashamed, shrugging a little, and then shivering, he took his bags and went out. The cold of the air seemed to lift him bodily. The moon was in the sky.

On the slope he began to run, he could not help it. Just as he reached the road, where his car seemed to sit in the moonlight like a boat, his heart began to give off tremendous explosions like a rifle, bang bang bang.

He sank in fright onto the road, his bags falling about him. He felt as if all this had happened before. He covered his heart with both hands to keep anyone from hearing the noise it made.

But nobody heard it.

(Death of a Traveling Salesman
Eudora Welty
Illness Quote #14

Be a woman of confidence, not cockiness.
Know your boundaries, set no limits.
Speak your kindness and turn your back to conformed groups.
The only way to be a woman of change in this world, is to walk what you talk and set your own soul free first.
Nikki Rowe
Illness Quote #15

Before I knew it, I was once again being whisked down the hallways at the new hospital into an even bigger room, one that, unbeknownst to me, would be my home for what would feel like a long, long time.
Jennifer Starzec
Illness Quote #16

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan
Illness Quote #17

Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.
Kaimana Wolff
Illness Quote #18

But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep, as if grief and remorse and horror were nothing but illusions, tricks done with mirrors, irrelevant to chrome and porcelain and clean, white, stiff hospital sheets and fluorescent lights.
Stephen R. Donaldson
Illness Quote #19

But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.
Ryünosuke Akutagawa
Illness Quote #20

But I had already fallen. Fallen into this deep, dark hole. I was trapped. Trapped in this nightmare.
Sarah Todd Hammer
Illness Quote #21

But illness does not always write itself upon the body, the sickness I search for is hidden deep within the brain. Sometimes it rises to the surface. Sometimes the face betrays what the body conceals. But there moments, these betrayals, last no longer than an instant. They come, they go, they pass over the patient, darkening and brightening his face like clouds gusting over a meadow. How is it possible, then, to tell what he is suffering when the visible signs of his inner disorder appear so fleetingly upon his face?
Sarah Shunlien Bynum
Illness Quote #22

But, Mike, I don’t want to wear a brace.”
“You’ll give it a chance, won’t you?”
“Well, if I can wear it under my clothes.”
“Sure and you can. I’ve made it that soft it won’t chafe.”
I took off my shirt and undid the top buttons of my underwear. “You’ll have to put it on me, Mike. I’ll never figure out how it works.”
“Lift up your arms, then, and I’ll slip it on.”
I did. But instead of slipping it over my arms, it was himself he slipped between them. He kissed me in the hollow of my throat, and it was a long time before we got those braces on.
Benedict Freedman
Illness Quote #23

Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.
Shaun Hick
Illness Quote #24

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Illness Quote #25

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable. Stagnation is not a medical term. The 17.5 million Americans diagnosed as suffering a major depression in 1997 were mostly damned. (Psychobiological examinations confuse cause and symptom.) Deficient serotonergic functioning, ventral prefrontal cerebral cortex, dis-inhibition of impulsive-aggressive behavior, blah blah blah: the medical lexicon boils emotion from human being. Go take a drug, the doctor says. Pain is a biochemical phenomenon. Erase all memory.
Antonella GambottoBurke
Illness Quote #26

DANGEROUS MEDICINE

Back in the day, the physician
Cut off the foot of a patient
To prevent a fatal infection.
And today, the physician
Prevents an infection with the use of
A questionable injection.
Not a single needle works on all patients the same way,
Because many may suffer an adverse reaction.
To immunize or to vaccinate,
Both are separate actions with different intentions.
But today's medicine is far more dangerous than ever before,
More so than when treatments were considered
Nonsensical or violent.
Because the selfish interests of
Aggressive healthcare giants,
Weigh more to the physician –
Than ethically choosing
The very best treatments
For his clients.
Suzy Kassem
Illness Quote #27

Dear Pen Pal,

I know it’s been a few years since I last wrote you. I hope you’re still there. I’m not sure you ever were. I never got any letters back from you when I was a kid. But in a way it was always therapeutic. Everyone else judges everything I say. And here you are: some anonymous person who never says “boo.” Maybe you just read my letters and laughed or maybe you didn’t read my letters or maybe you don’t even exist. It was pretty frustrating when I was young, but now I’m glad that you won’t respond. Just listen. That’s what I want.

My dog died. I don’t know if you remember, but I had a beagle. He was a good dog. My best friend. I’d had him as far back as I could remember, but one day last month he didn’t come bounding out of his red doghouse like usual. I called his name. But no response. I knelt down and called out his name. Still nothing. I looked in his doghouse. There was blood everywhere. Cowering in the corner was my dog. His eyes were wild and there was an excessive amount of saliva coming out of his mouth. He was unrecognizable. Both frightened and frightening at the same time. The blood belonged to a little yellow bird that had always been around. My dog and the bird used to play together. In a strange way, it was almost like they were best friends. I know that sounds stupid, but… Anyway, the bird had been mangled. Ripped apart. By my dog. When he saw that I could see what he’d done, his face changed to sadness and he let out a sound that felt like the word ‘help.’ I reached my hand into his doghouse. I know it was a dumb thing to do, but he looked like he needed me. His jaws snapped. I jerked my hand away before he could bite me.

My parents called a center and they came and took him away. Later that day, they put him to sleep. They gave me his corpse in a cardboard box. When my dog died, that was when the rain cloud came back and everything went to hell…
Bert V. Royal
Illness Quote #28

Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.
Carol Lee
Illness Quote #29

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self--to the mediating intellect--as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode, although the gloom, the blues which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.
William Styron
Illness Quote #30

Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself.
T.F. Hodge

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