Illness Quotes - Page 11

• Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Thinking, Numbers, Rising

  "Monckton saves the day!". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

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• The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crime

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• I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.

  John Forbes Nash

  Careers, Leader, Would Be

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• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Bipolar

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• Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Children, Pain, World

  Nnedi Okorafor (2008). “Zahrah the Windseeker”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

  Pamela Sue Martin

  Philosophy, Pneumonia, Serious Illness

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• AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Disease, Today, Aids

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• Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

  David Coverdale

  Taken, Long, Albums

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• Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

  David Perlmutter

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

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• Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

  John Calvin

  Feet, Medicine, Departure

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• People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

  Richard Avedon

  People, Confusion, Roles

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• It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dream, Orange, Dust

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

  Frances Hardinge

  China, Left Behind, Behinds

  Frances Hardinge (2014). “Cuckoo Song”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

  Jenny Downham

  Believe, Different, Research

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• Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Simple, Blood, Tests

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• Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

  Robin Hobb

  Communication, Air, Anxiety

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• Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Believe, Bears, Burden

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• People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

  Tony Dorsett

  People, Needs, Attention

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• In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

  Virginia Woolf

  Quality, Mystic, Seems

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

  David Agus

  Baby, Flu Vaccine, Shoes

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• My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

  Elyn Saks

  Lying, Mental Illness, Fortune

  Elyn R. Saks (2007). “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”, p.425, Hachette UK

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• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  Iain McGilchrist

  Years, Culture, World

  Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.436, Yale University Press

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• Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

  James Holman

  Wise, Cups, Bitter

  James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

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• True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Thinking, Intelligent

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

  Marcel Proust

  Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Sodom and Gomorrah”

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