Quotes About Recovery

To all of a sudden go from feeling almost invincible to being temporarily paralyzed to then having rods and screws in my neck and not really being able to move around to seeing my body change, I definitely, definitely, definitely did not feel myself at all.

I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, 'Well, you're supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.' It's an appropriate feeling to feel.

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.

Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes back.

When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it's the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.

As I tried to put the pieces of my life and that of my children back together, I returned to my very public job, but continued to suffer in private.

If the whole of the industry is suffering it would be naive to assume we would not suffer too.

Critically, you have to remain positive and know you will recover, remembering if you didn't suffer injuries, you'd be a pretty remarkable competitor in any sport.

If you suffer a setback but recover from it you become all the stronger as person and a fighter.

I can't properly explain it, but I don't mind admitting I suffered a breakdown.

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.

Shin splints are something I actually suffered with a lot in my younger years of dancing. I know the pain and it's not fun.

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.

The people of Iraq have suffered greatly.