Quotes About Illness

Cats can become ill if they hunt and kill mice.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. —RICHARD CARLSON, PH.D.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Violent anger makes me physically ill.

I was a really sick kid. I developed epilepsy when I was eight years old, and I would have violent seizures, and I would - literally, I couldn't get out of bed.

I thought I was going to die. Seriously. I had a 24-hour flu and then I had a stomach virus. I couldn't get out of my bed without going to the bathroom.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope – it means there's possibility. "I don't know what will happen next – how potentially exciting!" I'm going to have to figure out how to make the most of the life I have, illness or not, partner or not, the march of time notwithstanding.

deathbeds themselves are often a stew of drugs, fear, confusion, weakness.

There's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they love, needs help.

His father wore a paper-thin hospital gown the color of misery.

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

Sometimes people with cancer or other terminal illnesses have such a hard time saying "no" to an authoritative figure in their life, that on an unconscious level they will create a major dis-ease to say "no" for them.

Some people feel guilty for creating illness, or poverty, or problems. They choose to interpret responsibility as guilt.

Many people who come through catastrophic illness say that it was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to them because it gave them a chance to go about their lives differently.

We create every so-called illness in our body. Resentment, criticism, and guilt are the most damaging patterns.

The most irrational things can make a power of difference to a very ill woman.

We get used to seeing the patients ill; even used to them dying. When they do we get upset if we know them. We can't get upset for those we don't know. We have to forget them. We'd all have nervous breakdowns if we didn't.

He knew ? and I knew ? that the only way to get over an illness is to make friends with disease. Not to fight mentally and lose in the inevitable depression that comes with any severe illness.

the fact that Mommy's illness wrecked my life, the fact that it broke me, the fact that I am broken, heartbroken, heart operation, heart scar, broke

Though I knew I'd lost weight and was a bit pale, I never considered myself all that sick. I thought of myself as separate from them because of what I'd gone through, but it didn't occur to me until then that people might actually pity me. The idea appalled me.

As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be able to see her at all.

Don't think you have to discuss the illness. Sometimes, a sick person needs a break. And if you ask up front if he wants to talk about how he feels-- or doesn't-- you're giving him control at a time when he doesn't have a lot of choices.