Illness Quotes - Page 27

• I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

  David Feherty

  Suffering, Mental Illness

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• Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Cancer, Birth Defects

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• Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Creating, Risk

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• I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

  Aya Kito

  Real, Weak, Grew

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• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  Hans Kung

  Mean, Guarantees That, Events

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Kung: 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• If you're prematurely born or if you have things happening when you're like a baby being born. If you have to learn how to walk right or if there's something wrong with your gait or just physical things that are happening. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy.

  Queen Latifah

  Baby, Impact, Healthy

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• Our fears are those that cause cancer and those fears operate in the regions that the drugs we use to hide our fears is the most predominate feeling. Our minds cause our inner illness for the most part.

  Steven Machat

  Cancer, Drug, Feelings

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• A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

  Maimonides

  Food, Wine, Glasses

  Moses Maimonides, Jacob Israel Dienstag (1994). “Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma”

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• Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.

  David E. Sorensen

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Essence, Evil

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• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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• Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Writing, Phones

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul:  complacency, comfort, and ignorance.  I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

  Katie Davis

  Running, Jesus, Ignorance

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• I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

  Katie Davis

  Jesus, Self, Tragedy

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

  Adam Ant

  Six Months, Able, Awful

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• I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

  David Mitchell

  Errors, Mental Illness

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.197, Random House Group

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• How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Sorry, Good Day, Simple

  Geraldine Brooks (2002). “Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague”, p.123, Penguin

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• My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

  Mary Garden

  Block, Kind, Excuse

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• Tis a mad world, my masters.

  John Taylor

  Mad, World, Mental Illness

  John Taylor (1999). “Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• Very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

  James Redfield

  Attitude, Health, Recuperation

  James Redfield (2009). “Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

  John Locke

  Night, Doors, Weather

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.171

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• It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a "destiny" to become a famous writer, and to be remembered as one of the most important thinkers of the century.

  Colin Wilson

  Self Confidence, Destiny, Important

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• There's no way, of course, to fully understand what an illness does to someone or what emotional state or physical state it puts you in, but to show respect, yeah, definitely I've had a chance to talk to many people that - it wasn't really a specific illness that quote-unquote, I researched, and as I said, if I was a good actor I would have done that. But you know, I just wanted to pay respect without putting too much into it.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Emotional, People, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Kind, Mental Illness

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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