Quotes About Illness

Schizophrenia runs in the family.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.

My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.

With my dad it was a short time between him getting ill and passing. He got ill first and he took a turn for the worse very quickly, within days.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it was divded up in daily living: the Primary Imagination giving way to the Secondary. Poetry was forever seeking a conscious return to this state, which existed all the time, whether he knew it or not.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Büyük bir hastal?k geçirmeyenler, her?eyi anlad?klar?n? iddia edemezler.

Onlar? ?imdiden gayet iyi tan?yorum. Üstümden ç?kar?p yata?a att???m robdö?ambr içinde, ebediyen ayn? insan bulunacak: Hasta.

Be? dakika sonra hastaneden ç?k?yorum. Son not. Bu odada ba?kalar? inleyecekler. Onlar? ?imdiden gayet iyi tan?yorum. Üstümden ç?kar?p yata?a att???m ropdö?amb?r içinde, ebediyen ayn? insan bulunacak: Hasta.

Ferit dü?ündü. Hastal?k teyzenin kendisi de?il. Hastal?k namazla Swing aras?nda. Memleketin hastal???.

Now he'd been forced back on the inhalers, expectorants and headache pills produced by fiendish pharmaceutical multinationals which, he was convinced, directed a meaningful element of their astronomical profits into the development of new and virulent strains of influenza.

Julian was diagnosed with bone cancer in the spring of 1991. The cancer spread quickly and he died of it on August 16 of that year.

his youngest child, a four-year-old girl whom he adored, had suddenly fallen ill and lay dying.

On sent que cela monte, que l'explosion de colère est proche. Il dit qu'il n'admet pas l'emploi du « on ». Quoi ? « On » va guérir ? Qui ? Elle ? Elle est malade ? C'est quoi ce besoin biscornu de s'approprier un mal qui n'est pas le sien, dont elle ne sait rien ou presque, dont elle ne mourra pas ?

When fathers contested custody, even of infants, "good enough" mothers would consistently lose children due to (false) allegations of mental illness or sexual promiscuity.

Col bastone in mano penso non mi farei più mettere sotto da nessuno. Terrei testa. Questo bastone davvero mi mette allegria. Asseconda la mia vocazione al dispotismo. Quanto mi piace, dire agli altri cosa devono fare. Ci voleva di ammalarsi, per scoprire quanto dare disposizioni sia in fondo più gratificante di una faticosa autosufficienza. Era per moralismo, prima, che m'imponevo di fare tutto da sola. Adesso, malata, posso godermi in segreto un privilegio eticamente sospetto.

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

My mum was ill when I was originally making 'Edward Scissorhands' in 2005. I was virtually visiting her every night after rehearsals, and she never got to see it.

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.