#Illness Quotes

“A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.”

“All that I have said and done,Now that I am old and ill,Turns into a question tillI lie awake night after nightAnd never get the answers right.”

“Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!”

“But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.”

“Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”

“In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.”

“Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce.”

“Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.”

“You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.”

“When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.”

“Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.”

“One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes.”

“No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.”

“Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.”

“Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.”

“After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.”

“I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.”

“The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.”

“In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.”

“Violent anger makes me physically ill.”

“I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.”

“Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.”

“The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.”

“Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.”

“A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.”

“My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.”

“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.”

“I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.”

“When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night”

“As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.”

“The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.”

“I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.”

“Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?”

“To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.”

“Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.”

“When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.”

“I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.”

“I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.”

“his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.”

“The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!”

“For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.”

“Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a non-issue.”

“Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.”

“Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.”

“Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.”

“"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."”

“I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.”

“If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses”

“We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.”

“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”