Illness Quotes - Page 13

• Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Home, Tired

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• Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

  Deb Caletti

  Beautiful, Two, Long

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Medicine, Perfect, Degrees

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• The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

  John Green

  Sadness, Joy, Feels

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.64, Penguin

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• "Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing."

  Libba Bray

  Men, Promise, Causes

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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• Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It’s like fashion, like everything’s already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can’t get a diagnosis for.

  Mary Roach

  Fashion, Crazy, People

  "Why “Asshole” Is High Praise - and Other Anatomy Lessons With Mary Roach". Interview with Sarah Zhang, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2013.

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• The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.

  Pete Earley

  Running, Yelling, Talking

  Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.253, Penguin

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• The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

  Tom Rath

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.6, Missionday, LLC

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• 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!

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Men, Blood

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

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• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

  Edward Gorey

  Distance, Twilight, Party

  Edward Gorey (1953). “The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel”, Harcourt

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• Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to the good.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Children, Autism, Improvement

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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• We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the disease are all the emotions that make humans suffer: anger, hate, sadness, envy, and betrayal. When the fear is too great, the reasoning mind begins to fail, and we call this mental illness.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Betrayal, Hate

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• He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Fall, Rivers

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• R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).

  John Thomas Sladek

  Blood, Law, Dozen

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• Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.

  Nick Hornby

  Loneliness, Opposites, Trying

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.157, Penguin UK

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• America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

  Patti Davis

  Country, Father, Taken

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• Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  Rachel Corrie

  Smell, Apples, Sauce

  "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie".

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• Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Communication, Two, Problem

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

  Alastair Campbell

  People, Four, Mental Illness

  "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  Brad Blanton

  Crazy, Emotional, Attachment

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities, Race, Stupidity

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  Grief, Fire, Doe

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• Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.

  Javier Marías

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (1997). “Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me”, p.217, New Directions Publishing

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• I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.

  John Edward

  Believe, Journey, Leaving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, World, Understood

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.257, Dial Press

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