Quotes About Illness

Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.

You know, illness is not something that ever crossed my mind until I got diagnosed with leukemia two years ago at the age of 22. And I don't take things for granted anymore.

In any household, whenever you are a family that's going through something tough - whether it's an illness or whatever the case may be, families tend to close their doors and become more private.

For someone to say your son has a life-threatening illness only on the phone is hard to believe.

I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.

I had that C.difficile hospital bug that everyone is going on about. It was an experience. There's not much they can do. They just let you get on with it. It's a breakdown of the whole immune system.

If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component.

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

Les grands moments de l'existence, les naissances, la maladie, la mort ont le don de vous ramener à l'extrême banalité et de vous faire monter aux lèvres ces expressions toute faites, nées de la sagesse populaire, et qui traduisent mieux qu'un langage savant les réactions viscérales (47).

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.

So my illnesses create a disturbance? They attack me without warning and leave me insensible wherever I may be. I cannot be expected, before feeling ill, to ask people who happen to be there to leave the room.

All these drama created to sell medicines and vaccines.

Yet the informality belies the truth: everyone, with the exception of Adolf Hitler, is terrified. "You felt it to the point of physical illness," one German officer will later write. "Nothing was authentic except fear." And

The soul faithfully comes to our aid through dreams, deep emotion, love, the quiet voice of guidance, synchronicities, revelations, hunches, and visions, and at times through illness, nightmares, and terrors.

I myself don't have Netflix. And recently, I was staying at a friend's place who did, and I was feeling rather poorly one morning, and I sat down and watched the entire series of 'The Killing,' the American version of 'The Killing' in one day. I just got hooked. I thought, 'Wow, I've never done this before.'

I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like. I followed this wish of being a fiction writer.

Becoming a writer wasn't a choice (there would have been far more worthwhile things to do); it was the best, most fruitful way of being a bit ill.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.