Quotes About Illness

Crook and crafty animals like Wolf , Jackal, Fox, Hyena get ill mostly on holidays and weekends, nobody sees them taking pill and yet virus effect on them gets nil within a week only and then they all appear to thrill and chill on hill.

Fools believe the fake news stories and fabricated theories that say virus was found in birds/animals or it originated on a foreign land, wise sees the dirty politics and reason behind illness could be polluted environment especially supplies of contaminated water.

They are paid actors who can do anything for publicity, promotion, commission or gaining big position, even could pretend to be ill with virus, hospitalized and on medication.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

Chapter Ten The Threads in My Hands THE YEAR 1993 did not start well. In fact, New Year's Day found me ill at ease, hurting, coughing, and feverish, on an airplane bringing my family back a day early from Miami.

I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.

Diabetes is a serious illness that touches the lives of so many of our family members, friends and communities and we must do all that we can to raise the awareness of this disease.

I came back and started living with my parents, and you depend a lot on your parents. That was the time when my mother was diagnosed with an illness; she needed help and she could not be of that great help for raising my child.

When somebody has cancer, you think it's going to go away. It's not going to go away.

My gold, my money couldn't stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can't save me, then I don't need them.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

A. Was I ill? Have I got well? Who was my doctor? Can you tell? Oh, my memory is rotten! B. Only now you're truly well. Those are well who have forgotten.

I suffer: someone or other must be guilty - Every sick sheep thinks the same.

This modernity makes us ill: whinging peace and cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous filth of the modern mentality. This tolerance and largeur of the heart that "forgives" everything because it "understands" everything is a desert wind for us. Better to live amid the ice than among modern virtues and other such southern winds!

Brave and creative men never make pleasure and pain ultimate questions– they are secondary conditions: both of them must be desired when one will attain to something. It is a sign of fatigue and illness in these metaphysicians and religious men, that they should press questions of pleasure and pain into the foreground.

Para unos, la soledad es la huida del enfermo; para otros, la huida ante el enfermo.

taught us to be aware of ourselves as isolated egos existing "inside" our bodies; it has led us to set a higher value on mental than manual work; it has enabled huge industries to sell products – especially to women – that would make us owners of the "ideal body"; it has kept doctors from seriously considering the psychological dimensions of illness, and psychotherapists from dealing with their patients' bodies.

The essential in Frida is a sick woman, intelligent, with a great passion for life beyond her sickness.

For the better half of my early 20s, I was Bubble Girl. When I found out I had leukemia at 22 my world suddenly dwindled to four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights and a thicket of tubes and wires connecting me to an IV pole.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.

Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.