Quotes About Illness

Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids.  I consider it morbid.  Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. 

If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.' 'But she can't see a doctor now.' 'Why not?' 'She isn't well.

The most dangerous ads, as far as I'm concerned, are the new prescription drug ads, because they teach people to be sick.

One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.

It's almost as if for the labouring classes, illness has to be physical. They can't take their condition seriously unless there's a physical symptom.

I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes.

You're worried about your mother dying, aren't you," Leah said, putting her cheek on my forearm. "I can tell." For a moment I hesitated, but I could hear the call for intimacy in her voice, the desire for me to let her enter those grottoes where I tended my own fear of my mother's illness.

Ser incapaz de amar puede convertirse en una enfermedad, ¿no crees?

Now, I had lived in New York for many, many years; and no one had ever yet rung my doorbell to warn me against the emotional sickness of worry—an illness that, during the same time period, had caused ten thousand times more damage than smallpox.

Fear, worry, hate, supreme selfishness, and the inability to adjust themselves to the world of reality—these were largely the causes of their stomach illnesses and stomach ulcers

The savageness of the cancer was rivaled only by the brutality of the chemotherapy. She was left a ravaged skeleton.

Cada vez es mayor la evidencia de que los pacientes deprimidos que se hallan aquejados de una enfermedad grave también deberían recibir tratamiento para su depresión.

Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

I hereby demand that all people who are good at math make the world free of illness.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

He was so ill now that a priest came to shrive him. "From whom do you come, M. l'Abbé?" asked Voltaire. "From God Himself," was the answer. "Well, well, sir," said Voltaire; "your credentials?"121 The priest went away without his prey.

To the sick man sweet water tastes bitter in the mouth.

The new doctors all agreed on various tried-and-true medications, and within forty-eight hours of their coming on the case, the King was dead.

Has it occurred to you that I have gone to great effort and expense, as well as personal sacrifice, to reach this point, the man in black replied. And that if I fail now, I might get very angry. And if she stops breathing in the very near future, it is entirely possible that you will catch the same fatal illness?

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Throughout my many years of illness, I have never ... to ask[ed] God why He allowed me to suffer so long, I only ask what He wants me to do.

illness is actually a learned physiological response to specific stressors.

We don't even know that we're dealing with one of these masters of Darkness until we become physically ill, lose our friends, our jobs, our incomes, our fertile years, and eventually even our self-esteem and dignity.