Illness Quotes - Page 26

• It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

  W. H. Auden

  Stupid, Long, People

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• We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Women, Heart

  Letter to E.M. Shavrova, September 16, 1891.

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• A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Medicine, Interesting, Persons

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• Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.

  B. C. Forbes

  Exercise, Men, Careers

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• Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Love Is, Soul, Feelings

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.182, Northwestern University Press

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• You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Sick, Feel Good

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• Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a non-issue.

  Esther Hicks

  Pain, Healing, Issues

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2004). “Ask and It Is Given”, p.289, Hay House, Inc

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• There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Painting, Environment

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• Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

  Jean M. Auel

  War, Body, Mysterious

  Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.20, Bantam

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• Because all actions and expressions stem from the mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in what way we'll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But what about psychosomatic wellness?

  H. E Davey

  Expression, Meditation, Mind

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• I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Powerful, Get Better

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• It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

  Martha Manning

  Depression, Giving, Speak

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• A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Dream, Hurt

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• I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

  Martha Manning

  Depression, Crazy, People

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Drinking, Artist

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• I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.

  Martha Manning

  Depression, Running, Caring

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

  Beth Richardson Gutcheon

  Pain, Doubt, Helping

  Beth Richardson Gutcheon (1983). “Without a trace”, Dell Pub Co

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• 15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

  Thom Yorke

  Dancing, Trying, Looks

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• Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality...perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging...eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living flesh... is not a fantasy, but a practical and attainable possibility.

  Linda Goodman

  Healthy, Victory, Flesh

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• So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

  Virginia Woolf

  Journey, Vivid, Habit

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Emotional, Culture, Great Men

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• I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Recovery, Blood, Sweat

  Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.9, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is still realizable even when early contact is delayed--as it is for many mothers and their prematurely born infants, or when illness of either the newborn or the mother intervenes.

  Julius Segal

  Mother, Attachment, Events

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• The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Soul, Body, Type

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