Quotes About Illness

I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.

When I was playing Marius in the inaugural production of 'Les Mis,' I contracted glandular fever which developed into a post-viral depression. I was 23 and I couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel.

A few months before my dad died, his eyes had started to go, and his skin was turning green. When he finally went to hospital, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. None of us kids knew why the old man ignored the doctors and refused their help, but none of us were surprised, either.

If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that we sing out loud the message, 'Love forever.'

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

At their sewing bee, the girls made a reticule, a small nineteenth-century version of a purse. Krista was glad. "I'm getting a cold," she said. "I can put Kleenex in it." "They didn't have Kleenex back then," said Holly. "That's why I'm hiding it in the bag," Krista replied.

And just as this illness changed his life, and hers, and Claudette's and their house on rue de l'Agneau, so it changed that old, cracked globe. It felt different in her hands--smaller. She'd hold it like an egg that could break under her touch. Because now Jeanne's mind could not be on future of foreign countries, it had to be on the cutting up of food, the emptying of chamber pots. Her life moved around her father, and loving him more closely--and how could she resent this?

That night (as on all nights), when the lights get turned out, Don and I lie on our backs side by side with his left hand cradling my right. "I worry that this sickness is taking over your life, Bear," I murmur in the dark now permeated by a bathroom nightlight he has just affixed. "I have no other life," he responds while gently stroking my fingers. "I don't know what to hope for," I whisper. "Let's hope for a good summer," he says.

Terry Tempest Williams: "I look at Mother and I see myself," she writes during her period of caretaking; or worse: "A person with cancer dies in increments, and a part of you slowly dies with them.

I can either eat the expired turkey meat in the fridge, hoping it will cause me illness so great that no one can deny my need to visit the emergency room, or at the very least, stay home in bed.

It's what I lost. I could see him turning the sentence around in his head. Examining it as he would a wound or an illness. And I saw in his eyes the moment he realized that fixers like him and me can easily mend broken things. But we can't easily find lost things. Finding something you lost takes a different kind of skill.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

TB [tuberculosis] was a disease in the service of a romantic view of the world. Cancer is now in the service of a simplistic view of the world that can turn paranoid.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

What little urine I've been able to pass is a dark brown,

Is it wrong that I'm wishing for congestive heart failure now?" he asks through the food.

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

Illness begins with "I", Wellness begins with "we

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.