Illness Quotes - Page 33

• Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."

  Marianne Williamson

  Couple, Cancer, Over You

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money. But if we can't put some of our investments, or some of our money back into humans, isn't that where it all begins?

  Nia Long

  Thinking, People, Complaining

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Sick

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• We think that life is about get the girl, get the guy, get the car, get the job, get the house, get the kids, get the better job, get the better car, get the better house, get the promotion, get the office in the corner, get the kids on their way, get the grandkids, get the retirement watch, get the cruise tickets, get the illness, and get the heck out. That's it. That's a good life. But life has nothing to do with any of that. That is not our purpose in living. That is not the Agenda of the Soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Girl, Retirement, Jobs

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Struggle, Ambition, Years

  "Meet Fethullah Gülen, the World’s Top Public Intellectual". Foreign Policy Interview, foreignpolicy.com. August 4, 2008.

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• What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  People, Mental Illness, Moments

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

  Moby

  Self Worth, Opinion, Mental Illness

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

  Edwina Findley

  Mother, Cancer, Thinking

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• The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Voice, People, Giving

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• Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Healing, Compassion, Trying

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• True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

  Jill Stein

  Mother, Practice, Medicine

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses.

  Charles Moertel

  Dark, Age, Almonds

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• Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey

  Silent, Good Health

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey (2010). “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating”, p.40, Algonquin Books

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• We need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering.

  Jean Leloup

  Suffering, Needs, Kind

  Jean-Yves Leloup (2009). “Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey

  Spirit, Forgotten, Invisible

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey (2010). “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating”, p.132, Algonquin Books

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• Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

  Peter Boghossian

  Moral, Virtue, Cognitive

  Peter Boghossian (2013). “A Manual for Creating Atheists”, p.150, Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)

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• I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

  Sally Brampton

  Graffiti, Easy, Spots

  Sally Brampton (2018). “Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• "Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence."

  Sally Brampton

  People, Broken, Wish

  Sally Brampton (2018). “Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey

  Memories, Leaving, Purpose

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• Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

  Katrina Kenison

  Beautiful, Stay Focused, What You Love

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• We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey

  Numbers, Giving, Use

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• We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

  Benedict Groeschel

  Terminal Illness, Terminal

  Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR (2017). “Arise from Darkness: What to Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense”, p.76, Ignatius Press

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• The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American battle casualties. What it has concealed from the public is that 206,000 veterans of that war filed claims with the VA for injuries and illnesses. In the years since that war, 8,300 veterans have died, and 160,000 claims for disability have been recognized by the VA.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Government, Years

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• I want the audience to think about how many people are hiding in the shadows with the condition. I want the film to take away the stigma of thinking of this as a disease and an illness to be crushed. I want those in the condition to shine and contribute to the human spirit.

  Paul Dalio

  Thinking, Hiding In The Shadows, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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