Hypochondriac Quotes

• I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Hurt, Heart, Night

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• A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Pills, Medical

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

  Javier Bardem

  Jobs, People, Helping

  "Why am I doing this absurd job?". www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

  William C. Bryant

  Physicians, Medical, Said

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• Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

  Petra Stunt

  Taken, Worry, Healthy

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• After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.

  Stephen Colbert

  Four, Hours, Symptoms

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2012

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• Everyone thinks I'm a hypochondriac. It makes me sick.

  Felix Unger

  Thinking, Sick

  "Fictional character: Felix Unger". "The Odd Couple", www.imdb.com. 1970-1975.

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• How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Fear, Self Esteem

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• I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

  Antonio Banderas

  Heart, Thinking, Littles

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• We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

  Norman Cousins

  Pain, Self, Challenges

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• The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

  Goodman Ace

  Health, Body, Forget

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• But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

  Aldo Leopold

  Lying, Blessing, Healthy

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.19, Library of America

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• Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Body, Hysterical, Ennui

  Letter to Martha Jefferson, 28 March (1787)

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• I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Believe

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• Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

  Mortimer Collins

  Drug, May, Disease

  The Village Comedy Vol. II

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• One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

  Gene Weingarten

  Kings, Book, Doctors

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• It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  People, May, Medical

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Anxiety, Disease

  Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818). “Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life”, p.112

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• In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

  Robert Lowell

  Prophet, Ends

  Robert Lowell (1969). “Notebook 1967-68”

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• Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Thinking, Body

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.

  Robert Benchley

  Family, Country, Character

  Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”

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• In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sarcastic, United States, Clubs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

  Britt Ekland

  "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.

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• Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Self, Hands, Discipline

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.

  Brett Ratner

  Girl, Doctors, Tests

  "Brett Ratner's Apologies: The Last Stand". www.mtv.com. November 9, 2011.

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