Quotes About Illness

A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Happiness could be like a head cold. Or cholera. Catching.

And as for me, well, just say that I'm feeling a bit ill. My falling out with Alex will probably be the latest on-dit by then, and everyone will expect me to be thoroughly heartbroken.

When I was a small child in London in the early 1960s, I had whooping cough. Then, when I was ten, I had a bone infection called osteomyelitis. I was given antibiotics, and I remember being really groggy and in pain.

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.

Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it's something you have to embrace because the other choice is being dead. So embrace it, grow with it. And that's what I try and do.

If you have a chronic illness in America, there's a good chance you also hold a degree in Health Insurance 101, whether you want to or not.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

My grandfather was terminally ill, and any interaction with him felt so incomplete. It seemed impossible to say or do anything that was enough. And, of course, that was true. Nothing could have been enough.

Randolph Churchill went into hospital… to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not "malignant."… It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Otras veces pienso que si me ha dado por escribir los recuerdos, es porque alguien que está en mí y que sabe más que yo, quiere que escriba los recuerdos porque pronto me iré a morir de no sé qué enfermedad.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Acceptance is a deceptive word. It suggests compliance, a consenting to my condition and to who I have become. This form of acceptance is often seen as weakness, submission. We say I accept my punishment. Or I accept your decision. But such assent, while passive in essence, does provide the stable, rocklike foundation for coping with a condition that will not go away. It is a powerful passivity, the Zen of Illness, that allows for endurance.

It's a blessing when the person you love shows the kind of instincts you'd hoped they'd have when push comes to shove. Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick. And if you're blessed, those around you will rise to the occasion in your hour of need.

Put God to the test when troubles come. He won't let you down. In the midst of a painful illness, Paul begged God to intervene and take it away. But God replied, "My grace is sufficient for you" (2 Corinthians 12:9). It was sufficient for Paul, and it will be for you.

The serious student of the Bible cannot dismiss homosexual behavior simply as an alternate lifestyle. Nor can it be argued that homosexuals were "born this way" or that such behavior is an illness.

Przez rok cierpia?em na jak?? chorob? mózgow?, a zdawa?o mi si?, ?e jestem zakochany.

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Loving someone is like having a mental illness that's not covered by health insurance.

Leaning into disappointment in our bodies can make it harder to live and take care of ourselves with injuries, chronic pain and illness, or other disabilities we may have.