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Quotes About Illness

This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.
~ Daryl Hall
Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.
~ David Bohm
We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.
~ Harvey V. Fineberg
As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.
~ Eric Schlosser
Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
In fact for most people except those that are very ill, the risks outweigh the benefits. Except that the long-term medical risks are hidden; they will play out in the long run, whereas the legal risk is immediate. This is no different from the Bob Rubin risk-transfer trade, of delaying risks and making them look invisible.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I did not feel ill, Symmache; now I do (after your ministrations)." (Non habui febrem, Symmache, nunc habeo).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
È una strana consolazione sentirsi dire dieci volte al giorno: siate allegro, non occorre altro alla vostra malattia. Certo il rimedio è eccellente, ma il suggerirlo non è lo stesso che amministrarlo. Non pensano che siate allegro significa siete triste, e che nulla è meno allegro di questa idea.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
~ Neal Shusterman
Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well?
~ Neal Shusterman
The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.
~ Charles Bukowski
TV can make me ill in five minutes, but I can look at an animal for hours and find nothing but grace and glory, life as it should be.
~ Charles Bukowski
I took the salt and pepper, seasoned the broth, broke the crackers into it, and spooned it into my illness.
~ Charles Bukowski
Hai visto che occhiÈ malato. - È malato di sogni. Siamo tutti malati di sogni. Ecco perchè siamo qui.
~ Charles Bukowski
An important part of responsibility is to not neglect it. I wonder how often we have neglected the authority Jesus has given us by not applying His power to illness, weather, poverty or other life situations that He expects us, as His agents, to deal with? I wonder how many people Jesus heals directly because we do not participate? Worse yet, how many go unhealed because we who have been commissioned to operate in Jesus' authority and power have neglected our responsibility?
~ Charles H. Kraft
the illness of a good child is so far less trying than the sinfulness of one's sons – like your two elder brothers. Oh! Then one feels that death in purity is so far preferable to life in sin and degradation!
~ Charlotte Zeepvat
Perhaps that was the worst kind of monster: the kind who had blue eyes and small constellations of freckles, and yet was humanized by fingers made knobby by injury or illness. The fact was, Hollywood was awash with exactly
~ Chris Bohjalian
I missed a lot of school. I was always sick. I was in the hospital a lot. Asthma kicked my butt.
~ Shannon Briggs
Incarceration in a mental hospital is unlawful deprivation of liberty, that mental illnesses are fictitious diseases, and that coercive psychiatry is social control, not medical care.
~ Thomas Szasz
Birçok insan hastad?r. Fakat yaln?zca psikanalistler bunu gurur duyulacak bir ÅŸey olarak görür.
~ Thomas Szasz
Psikiyatri –burada bu terimi psikanalizi, psikolojiyi ve bütün ak?l saÄŸl??? mesleklerini içine alacak ÅŸekilde kullan?yorum– modern toplumlar?n en önemli kurumlar?ndan biridir ve "ak?l hastal???n?n diÄŸer hastal?klar gibi bir hastal?k olduÄŸu" ÅŸeklindeki postulat-önermeye s?k?ca baÄŸl?d?r. Bu önerme bir yaland?r.
~ Thomas Szasz
Because they were alone. In fact everyone was alone all the time, but when you got sick you knew it, and that was a lot of what suffering was-knowing.
~ Tobias Wolff
Frank says of his dad, "He will brag about his involvement with the POWs and the VFW and the flag thing. But what I really appreciate about him is how he took care of my mother for ten years when she was really ill.
~ Tom Brokaw
When we trip and fall down they glance at us; if we cut or bruise ourselves, they ask us are we crazy. When we catch colds, they shake their heads in disgust at our lack of consideration. How, they ask us, do you expect anybody to get anything done if you all are sick? We cannot answer them. Our illness is treated with contempt, foul Black Draught, and castor oil that blunts our minds.
~ Toni Morrison