Quotes About Illness

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

Our illness is often our healing.

Jealousy is not the remedy.It is the illness.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.