Illness Quotes - Page 31

• There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.

  Moby

  Mean, Self Worth, Perspective

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• Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Anxiety, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.

  Vince Lombardi

  Tired, Mean, Careers

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• There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

  Diablo Cody

  Finding Yourself, Fame, Situation

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• Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

  Ken Wilber

  Growing, Mental Illness, Unhappiness

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• You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement.

  Sharon Stone

  Thinking, Fda, Office

  "Romancing With Stone". Interview with Ruchel Louis Coetzee, www.newyou.com. March 14, 2014.

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• The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Passion, Men, Soul

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• Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

  Julia Sweeney

  Funny Things, Things In Life, Horrible

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• Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Noble, Unions

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• Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

  Paul Tournier

  Blue, Years, Vitality

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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• You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.

  Wanda Sykes

  Goal, Trying, Disease

  "How to Make a Woman Happy". www.esquire.com. February 9, 2007.

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• The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

  Lawrence S. Kubie

  Essence, Patterns, Behavior

  Lawrence S. Kubie (1966). “Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process”

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• I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to do better in 2016.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Years, Blogging, Lasts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Self, Practice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

  Marc Almond

  Teenage, School, Broken

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.

  Tia Mowry

  Thinking, People, Serious

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• Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

  Neal Shusterman

  Misunderstood, Three, Affliction

  "Five questions for Neal Shusterman". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. March 9, 2015.

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• I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly.

  Rebecca Miller

  Thinking, Artist, Use

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

  Anthony Marra

  Children, Sadness, Addiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

  Anthony Marra

  Children, Emotional, Light

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Mental Illness, Film, Heavy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, People, Mental Illness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

  Brian Lindstrom

  People, Police, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be reassuring when you've exhausted the Western doctor tool kit, and the doctors are sending you to acupuncturists for pain relief.

  Heidi Julavits

  Pain, Believe, Doctors

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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