Quotes About Illness

Matrimony, he began to think, was a cure for an illness he hadn't known he had.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

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

Think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

Depression is such a crippling, debilitating illness.

After three more years, she was released from the asylum, rattling with pills – a much reduced, soon to be terminally ill woman who was invisible, on the street, to those who passed her by.

the family doctor was summoned, and pronounced me stricken with fever.

This one day her mother gave her a basket of wine and cake to take to her grandmother because she was ill. Wine and cake? Where's the aspirin? The penicillin? Where's the fruit juice? Peter Rabbit got camomile tea. But wine and cake it was.

Like Mom, Zoe thought–like Mom used to. And that's where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It's not even good poetry, she thought. I don't have talent, it's her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. "You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery.

I'm going to throw up

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.

The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the perfect place for a dialogue that brings together industry, civil society, U.N. agencies, and countries around a shared response to the challenge of protecting children against vaccine-preventable illness.

Mummy and two attendant poets have three bad colds in the head, so I have come here. It is the feast of S. Nichodemus of Thyatira, who was martyred by having goatskin nailed to his pate, and is accordingly the patron of bald heads. Tell Collins, who I am sure will be bald before us. There are too many people here, but one, praise heaven! has an ear-trumpet, and that keeps me in good humor. And now I must try to catch a fish. It is too far to send it to you so I will keep the backbone…

Yet in the awful majesty of her pain he went out to her unreservedly, almost sexually. He wanted to gather her up in her arms, as he so often had Nicole, and cherish even her mistakes, so deeply were they part of her. The orange light through the drawn blind, the sarcophagus of her figure on the bed, the spot of face, the voice searching in the vacuity of her illness and finding only remote abstractions. As he arose the tears fled lava-like into her bandages.

Durante il fragoroso decollo Dick si sentì intorpidito, rendendosi conto di quanto fosse stanco. Un'enorme persuasiva tranquillità s'impossessò di lui, e lasciò la malattia ai malati, il rumore ai motori, la direzione ai piloti.

Os poetas místicos são filósofos doentes,  E os filósofos são homens doidos.

La maggior parte delle persone si ammala per non saper esprimere quello che vede e quello che pensa.

Dac?,din întâmplare,aceast? lume e o greÅŸeal? iar eu sunt adev?rat? Dac? lumea e o greÅŸeal? înseamn? c? este o greÅŸeal? a tuturor oamenilor. Åži fiecare dintre noi este cel puÅ£in greÅŸeala fiec?ruia dintre noi. Dar de ce îmi pun eu întreb?ri,dac? nu pentru c? sunt bolnav?

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought that this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.

I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.