Illness Quotes - Page 14

• I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

  Paula McLain

  Mother, Rain, Eight

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

  Pete Earley

  Real, Jail, People

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". "On the Road with Lizzie Simon", www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Cancer is just a word that creates fear. Forget about that word, and let's just focus on balancing your body. All illnesses are just symptoms of imbalance. No illness can remain when your entire system is in balance.

  Anita Moorjani

  Cancer, Focus, Balance

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Apr 19, 2012

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• "Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Love Is, Said

  Naguib Mahfouz (2012). “Before the Throne”, p.44, Anchor

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• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

  Scott Stossel

  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him.

  Yukio Mishima

  Struggle, Thinking, Wings

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

  Chris Shays

  War, Causes, Syndromes

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• He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Disappointment, Sadness, Past

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

  Max Beckmann

  Animal, Overcoming

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.304, University of Chicago Press

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• "No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

  Patrick Ness

  Army, Thinking, People

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• In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will 'be an app for that' to keep you on your best path to wellness.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Best Practices, Long, Support

  "Health Information Technology: Paving the Way to Improved Patient Care" by Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.

  Sherman Alexie

  Men, Imagination, Romance

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• Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Sports, Doctors, Serious Illness

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• The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

  David Brin

  Essence, Patterns, Emotion

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• I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

  Irving Stone

  Book, Mental Illness, Cures

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• 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?

  Joan D. Vinge

  Worry, Age, Woe

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• Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

  Marcia Angell

  Illness And Death, Patient, Approach

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• I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Ideas, Interesting

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• Age and illness made one a dualist

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Age, Made

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Wind's Twelve Quarters”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Childhood, Three, Months

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• Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Memories, Brain, Eating

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• It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

  Roger Ebert

  Wisdom, Looks, Human Nature

  "Remaking my voice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

  Saint Augustine

  Mind, Mental Illness, Command

  "The Confessions of St. Augustine".

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• Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

  Carl Jung

  War, Neurosis, Mental Illness

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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