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Quotes About Illness

That's what influenza means, she said. Influenza delle Stelle - the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought that illness proved that the heavens were governing their dates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.
~ Emma Donoghue
Influenza delle stelle—the influence of the stars. Medieval Italians thought the illness proved that the heavens were governing their fates, that people were quite literally star-crossed.
~ Emma Donoghue
not feel very well.
~ Enid Blyton
Pretty Sick Dog
~ Enid Blyton
More than one thousand people in excess of the July norm were admitted to inpatient units in local hospitals because of heatstroke, dehydration, heat exhaustion, renal failure, and electrolytic imbalances. Those who developed heatstroke suffered permanent damage, such as loss of independent function and multisystem organ failures. Thousands of other stricken by heat-related illnesses were treated in emergency rooms.
~ Eric Klinenberg
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than a quarter of the American population suffers a bout of food poisoning each year.
~ Eric Schlosser
Oscar, la malattia è come la morte. E' un fatto. Non è una punizione.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Segregate an ill cat from the others, especially if they're treating him poorly.
~ Amy Shojai
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
~ Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
~ Anais Nin
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 tarnishings.
~ Anais Nin
He tried to remember her ever being this way before. In her voice--almost overexuberant--was not simply holiday cheer but joyous relief, like some terminally ill patient who's just been told she's not sick anymore.
~ Andre Dubus III
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
~ Ville Valo
I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.
~ Marti Noxon
When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.
~ John Lurie
OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the general welfare of working Americans, whether work itself is hazardous or not.
~ Eugene Scalia
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
~ Flip Wilson
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.
~ Spike Milligan
I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.
~ Robert Hunter
I feel like having children - and the illness I had when I was pregnant - is probably more important than anything else to the person I am now. I'm massively aware of how we can take everything for granted - how fragile life is.
~ Emma Weymouth
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
~ Fran Drescher
Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.
~ Joe Bastianich
When I was really sick, I loved watching 'Dancing With the Stars.'
~ Victoria Arlen
It's hard to see your wife deteriorate in front of your eyes.
~ Jeremy Camp