Illness Quotes - Page 21

• What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Father, Reading, Evening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.48, Jaico Publishing House

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• Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

  Elyn Saks

  Children, Powerful, Knowing

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• Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Real, Healing

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• How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Philosophy, Roots

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6781, Delphi Classics

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• For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

  Aldous Huxley

  Eye, Speech, Saws

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• My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

  Henny Youngman

  Brother, Jobs, Giving Up

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• there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sadness, Mean, Breathing

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

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• a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sick, Sacred, Rooms

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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• My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Break Out, Lace, Mending

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• Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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• Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Animal, Stronger

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• Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Healing, Circles, Broken

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Lava, Madness

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “A Reflection of the Other Person”, Chatto & Windus

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• Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Children, Yesterday

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• I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!

  May Sarton

  Anger, People, Safety

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• Illness is the proving ground of friendship.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Friendship, Prove

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• Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Loss, Issues, Sick

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (2013). “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick”, p.59, PublicAffairs

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• It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Believe, Doctors, Nurse

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (2013). “How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick”, p.16, PublicAffairs

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• it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Sick, Needs, Rooms

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.406, Applewood Books

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• Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.

  Mother Teresa

  Sweet, Jesus, Nursing

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.

  Judith Martin

  Pain, People, Sick

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sorry, Get Well, Occupation

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.20

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• A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strong, Fall, Frustration

  Sigmund Freud (1997). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Parent, Psychology

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “Three essays on the theory of sexuality”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

  Rebecca West

  Sympathy, Running, Hurt

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.245, Open Road Media

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