Illness Quotes - Page 28

• I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

  Charles Stross

  Space, Long, Radiation

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• Do they think I'm on drugs? That I have a life-threatening illness? That I'm anorexic? Emotionally, it doesn't get easier to hear those criticisms - but it gets easier to be resolute about my reaction to it.

  Fiona Apple

  Thinking, Drug, Criticism

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Stupidity, Dying, Culture

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, People, Disease

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Thinking, Awareness

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Understanding, Understanding Yourself

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Illness itself can make you angry, enraged, furious, and it made me angry, enraged, and furious. I don't think it brought me to God at all. It depends how you deal with it. And I think that, at its best, three little words that always have to be applied to religion, religion can help you to deal with that.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, Three, Littles

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Medicine, Enough

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• A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Doctors, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

  Anton Chekhov

  Cures, Remedy, Ifs

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• If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.

  Cheshire Cat

  Medicine, Wells, Centipedes

  "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• For me, Yves Saint Laurent is a hero because he fought his whole life against illness. Maybe the only way to fight this illness for him was to make it positive with creation. Otherwise he would have been lonely or in the hospital. He had so many issues with alcohol, drugs, and everything, this explains a lot about his necessity to create.

  Jalil Lespert

  Lonely, Hero, Fighting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

  Albert Camus

  Facts, Serious, Speak

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.176, Vintage

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• Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

  Kat Duff

  Practice, Cocoons, Isolation

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• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  Karen Abbott

  Country, Practice, Ideas

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• If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same
  age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly
  seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to
  place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they
  are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves
  to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the
  slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death
  amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among
  the latter.

  Petrarch

  Recovery, Doctors, People

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• Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

  Shawn Colvin

  Horse, Healthy, Mental Illness

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Love is a grave mental illness.

  Plato

  Love Is, Mental Illness, Graves

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• A sick person is Allah's guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long as he says ' al hamdulillah', praise be
  to God, and does not fight it and complain. When God returns to him his health, he expiates his sins and gives him the status of the newly-born
  (completely pure and free of any sin). Illness is a mercy and a blessing.

  Kristiane Backer

  Fighting, Blessing, Long

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• All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".

  Barbara Brennan

  Self, Hatred, Suffering

  Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field”, p.6, Bantam

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• Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.

  Marni Jackson

  Cancer, Sleep, Animal

  Marni Jackson (2003). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.311, A&C Black

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• Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts.

  Judith Orloff

  Heart, Stage, Opening

  Judith Orloff (2012). “Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: 5 Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness”, p.21, Harmony

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• Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom.

  Margo Adair

  Doctors, Symptoms

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• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

  Jacki Weaver

  Becoming, Mental Illness, Silver

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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