Quotes About Illness

All we need to know is that beauty is truth, said Keats, and I'm sorry to sound callous, but what he actually needed to know was the cure for his general malaise and for the illness that eventually killed him, aged twenty-five. *

This was an incident no one ever told my brother, an incident that everyone else in my family has forgotten, except me. One day during his illness, when my mother and I were standing over him, looking at him—he was asleep and so didn't know we were doing so—I reminded my mother of the ants almost devouring him and she looked at me, her eyes narrowing in suspicion, and she said, "What a memory you have!"—perhaps the thing she most dislikes about me.

When we grumble about the weather, we are arguing against God's ordering of creation. When we complain about illness or job loss or whatever it may be, we are declaring, whether we realize it or not, that God isn't handling our affairs very well. Complaining is actually a form of pride, which makes sense when we recognize its rebellious undertones.

Bill . . . but did you see Norma when she was ill, towards the

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

Y lo peor es que hiciste que se disculpara. [...] La hiciste pedir perdón por su enfermedad. Por su valor. Hiciste que le diera vergüenza morirse.

You are ill, correct? The warmth and shivering had no other particular cause, did it?" "Not only am I ill, I am sure I am contagious.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

Jung deu um nome ao seu tipo de mulher. Um nome que não ajuda muito. A doença é bem pior do que o nome..." "Que nome é esse?", perguntei-lhe. "Não é costume dizer aos enfermos os nomes das suas doenças.

Their timing was perfect, because the regent was seriously ill.

Mary Tudor, the English queen, fell mortally ill at the age of forty-two.

Then Francis became ill. He had always been a delicate child, nicknamed "le Petit Roi

but it became rapidly clear he was gravely ill, probably from a brain tumor.

Mary's ill health coincided with her pleas of helplessness at the events unfolding in Scotland.

17th, she fell dangerously ill. A few days earlier, she had complained of "spleen.

Fino a che una cosa non ci ammala, non la capiamo.

In ten days—ten days!—the epidemic had exploded from a few hundred civilian cases and one or two deaths a day to hundreds of thousands ill and hundreds of deaths each day.

But two days later, six hundred men were hospitalized with this strange disease. The hospital ran out of empty beds, and hospital staff began falling ill.

In China the wind was originally regarded as a demon that caused illness

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

A strong heart can overcome sickness but those who lost hope can't.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.