Quotes About Illness

Nailed to the beloved body like a slave to a cross, I have learned some secrets of life which are now dimmed in my memory by the operation of the same law which ordains that the convalescent, once cured, ceases to understand the mysterious truths laid bare by illness, and that the prisoner, set free, forgets his torture, or the conqueror, his triumph passed, forgets his glory.

As Winnicott remarks, social existence, though obviously indispensable for organized human communities, can induce us to regard the world primarily "as something to be fitted in with or demanding adaptation." For Winnicott, this type of social compliance is a form of psychic illness, which suggests that the vast majority of us are unwell much of the time. As he claims, "social health is mildly depressive— except for holidays.

diseases of an unromantic sort,

Hvis jeg ikke havde været så heldig at falde så dybt ned i min sygdom, ville jeg måske ikke have haft styrke til at føre denne konfrontation med mig selv til ende.

Everybody," he said, "who goes to church gets ill. You must listen to the plants and stones because God is in them, and all the rest is junk.

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

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Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Lo que sí no es ningún tipo de diversión es la cantidad cada vez mayor de personas que han venido a morir al salón de belleza. Ya no son solamente amigos en cuyos cuerpos el mal está avanzado, sino que la mayoría son extraños que no tiene dónde irse a morir.

How's his appendix?" "Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, being doted on by an army of hot nurses. Makes me sick." "Maybeyou should rupture something." "Any more of these stories out of you and I just might.

Flint", said Tanis gravely."I know you'll be terribly disappointed. But you've only got a cold. You're not dying.

Depression is not a psychiatric illness, but a systemic disease.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.

Joey: Beth is really sick, I don't think they can do anything for her. Rachel: Joey, wanna put the book in the freezer?

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness, and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary rel.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Choose to look at illness and death in positive ways rather than negatively will help to give your life here on the planet deeper meaning.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing.