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Quotes About Illness

Not being able to do anything because you're sick sucks!
~ Unknown
Non mi meraviglierebbe chela tua malattia fosse una conseguenza di questo odioso inverno che è durato un'eternità. Allora dovresti prendere le mie stesse medicine: cioè quanto più aria primaverile puoi; coricati molto presto, perché è necessario dormire, abbi cura dei cibi, mangia legumi freschi e non bere vini cattivi o altri pessimi alcolici. Infine pochissime donne e moltissima pazienza.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Today, Friday, I went there but could not see him. The intern and the attendant told me that after my wife left, he had had a terrible attack; he had a very bad night, and they had to put him in an isolated room. Since he has been locked in this room, he has eaten no food and utterly refused to talk. That is the exact state of your brother at present.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
When God supports us, illness is no misfortune, especially when we get new ideas and new intentions in those days of illness that would not have come to us if what not been ill, and when we achieve clearer faith and stronger trust in God.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Indeed, illness or death holds no terror for me, but happily for us, ambition is not compatible with the callings we follow. There are so many people in all classes of society, from the highest to the lowest, who believe that, anyway.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
When it is acute, we call it disease; when it is chronic, we call it nature. It is a disease
~ Vivekananda
The thicker, the sicker.
~ Unknown
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
~ W.H. Auden
When I feel ill, cinema pictures of the circumstances of my death flit across my mind's eye. I cannot prevent them. I consider the nature of the disease and all I said before I died- something heroic, of course!
~ Unknown
If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.
~ Paul A. Offit
Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
~ Susanna Kaysen
My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.
~ Tom DeLonge
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
~ Unknown
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
~ Mark Twain
I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it
~ Mercedes McCambridge
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There was no other explanation for such an illness in a man otherwise so young and fit. It was the consequence of failing to find the ruthlessness to take what he wanted instead of capitulating to what he should do.
~ Philip Roth
Dr. Eric Cassell, an internist at Cornell University, concluded about his patients, "If I had to pick the aspect of illness that is most destructive to the sick, I would choose the loss of control.
~ Philip Yancey
Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.
~ Philip Zaleski
There is a constant suspicion that headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and hence all practising or making trial of virtue in the higher sense is absolutely stopped; for a man is always fancying that he is being made ill, and is in constant anxiety about the state of his body.
~ Plato
Love is a serious mental illness.
~ Plato
El amor es una grave enfermedad mental.
~ Platon
this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhiliration of good health. and if we never cried, we wouldnt be able to recognize joy. in a way, the good only gains value when it is contrasted with the bad
~ Unknown