Quotes About Illness

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

He liked the fog, the world quietened down and closed in. Glossy turned to matt, every stridency was muted, substance leached out of the brute matter all around. Things became notions, the brash present a vague memory. By some parallel process of slippage, his innumerable childhood memories of foggy days morphed into other memories. The fog of illness, real or feigned, of fevers and flu and febrility.

Good quality is less costly because of more accurate diagnoses, fewer treatment errors, lower complication rates, faster recovery, less invasive treatment, and the minimization of the need for treatment. More broadly, better health is less expensive than illness.

The elderly tend to get fewer colds than kids, even though they have a weakened immune system. This happens because our systems develop defenses against antigens; we acquire antibodies to the germs we've defeated in the past (stored in plasma cells in your bone marrow, as mentioned earlier in Chapter 6), and destroy those antigens and viruses before they can multiply and cause that illness.

The Messiah enters [the Hall of the Sons of Illness] and summons all the diseases and all the pains and all the sufferings of Israel that they should come upon him, and all of them come upon him. And would he not thus bring ease to Israel and take their sufferings upon himself, no man could endure the sufferings Israel has to undergo because they neglected the Torah.22

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

THIS will show her true colors! Thus, not even a call. But that's par for the course with Dina! She didn't even send a card or visit when he was sick."OK! Magazine: Lindsay's Grandfather Dies (August 28, 2008)1

Waiting on God is hard when you are dispirited by illness. But part of waiting on God, learning to be passive in a way creative for your inner life, is not a question of thinking about God, but of growing in stillness. It has to do with prayer, and with music or from the simple contemplation of the world about you.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

From that information, they were able to re-create the virus and then put it into ferrets (a good animal model for human influenza infection) to understand how easily it could transmit, how it causes illness, and its severity.

En Monrovia, la gente llevaba a sus familiares enfermos para que los curaran en la iglesia. Hasta cuarenta pastores murieron tras contraer el virus por haber atendido a sus congregantes aquejados.

telling us that the death has occurred in the family home or after a long illness or after a short illness or suddenly or in England or peacefully at their home in all the innumerable ways and places in which anyone can die

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

He grew up and later lived with an insatiable wanderlust. He always carried a rug with him and used to say, "My home is where my rug is"; he spent the better part of his life among tribes so wild that, after shaking hands, he always had to count his fingers. Only illness provided some sort of island of peace in his life. As soon as he fell ill, he would forget every other language save his own.

Her mother was unrecognizable to her; it would have been easy to say that the illness had changed her, but it wasn't so simple, was it? Illness and dying had revealed her mother's truer thoughts, the ones her mother had been protecting from her.

What? I have a cold. Don't get a look of terror on your face. The worst that could happen is that you'll get a cold, too. You don't have to theatrically Purell a thousand times a day and look all panicky every time I come into the room.

As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I'm recovering from tuberculosis.

I don't have that kind of confidence. My voice is loud and piercing, and I project like I was once told by a doctor during a childhood illness that I would never speak again.

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies.

I've experienced increased insecurity because of my increased vulnerability to illness.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Even after being overwhelmed by minor illnesses, I can still feel the mind is possessed by that spirit of inspiration. That's the power of the mind over the body.

The yogi rarely gets sick, just because he is practicing his mind control on a daily basis. Positive thinking protects him from illness.