Illness Quotes

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.

People aren't going to go bankrupt anymore if they have a serious illness, which was a serious issue here in the country before the Affordable Care Act. And, in fact, the expense of expanding health care for those who need the subsidy is picked up by the federal government for most of the early years.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.