Quotes About Illness

a chain reaction of five-year-olds vomiting

As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief and Dr. Gautman himself corrected me. Our mother had mistaken her first symptoms for a pregnancy, and so I still pictured the Malig-Nancy as a baby, a tiny, eyeless fist of a sister, killing her.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

How do you help someone who doesn't recognize they have a brain illness? It's not their fault the brain can't inform itself that something's gone haywire.

When a dangerous dog falls ill, who will come to help?

And so, when she fell ill, it seemed a natural thing to me." "But I don't understand. I thought you said she was pretending.

standing in front of ground zero for the Mystery Illness, and it looks like . . ." ". . . where some of the North Shore's most pampered daughters have . . ." ". . . are asking if the HPV vaccine could possibly . . ." ". . . side effect of an age of oversexualized childhood, when girls are . . ." I paused, frowning, before shoving my way inside.

To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to 'fight,' as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational.

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to "fight," as if sickness were a character failing.

The world had always looked painfully beautiful to him when he was sick. It was only when he was alone and he couldn't participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.

It's my sister. She's sick." "What's wrong with her?" "Dysentery.

There would be leaves in the fall, and snow in the winter, and cherry blossoms in the spring. The world had always looked painfully beautiful to him when he was sick. It was only when he was alone and he couldn't participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to "fight," as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated, no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational

But I wondered why they had waited for Eve's illness to make themselves available for companionship.

Many people with creative genes also suffer from various neurological disorders; you can be Mozart and still be bipolar," says Salerian. "There is a very close link between creativity and dysfunction of the nervous system—it's part of a mood disorder package that artistic people have a higher chance of suffering from.

Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing. … I am not aware of any other factor in medicine—not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery—that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness, and premature death from all causes.

Instantly I comprehended the truth of these thoughts. Reality is the present. Dwelling in the past or future causes pain and illness. Patience can stop time. God's love is everything.

My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.

Winifred ismét teherbe esett. Bayreuthban még évtizedekkel kés?bb is mesélték, hogy a terhessége elején szüntelenül hányó fiatalasszonyt Siegfried sopánkodva követte a vécére: "De Wini, azt a drága ételt!

Today nearly two billion people on earth may host the tuberculosis bacterium. Over the next decade, ninety million will develop active TB. Eventually thirty million will die. Tuberculosis, once the most Romantic of illnesses, is now the deadliest disease on earth. Controlling the bacterium is the twenty-first century's greatest public health challenge.

It is no small task to learn to see our depression, anxiety, weight, relationship problems, addictions, and illnesses as efforts of our psyche to heal us—as symptoms that are trying to get us to change, in ways that will help our lives become better on a more profound level. Jung calls learning to value our problems and how they can lead us into becoming transformed, the "teleological aspects" of symptoms.