Illness Quotes - Page 37

• I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Trying, Cures

  "Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

  Adam Ant

  Mental Health

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• My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

  Lee Atwater

  Humanity, Brotherhood, Taught

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

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• Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Growing Up, Stress, Sacrifice

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Cancer, People

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 4, 1997.

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• Depression is a physical illness.

  Terry Bradshaw

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• Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

  Frank Bruno

  Powerful, Fighting, Bipolar

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• Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

  Kris Carr

  Stress, Causes, Source

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• Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

  Mason Cooley

  Looks, Literature, Rescue

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• I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

  Gail Devers

  Disease, Radiation, Graves

  "Gail Devers: 'A girl asked what was wrong with me. She said I looked like a monster'". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2007.

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• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

  Ann Druyan

  Storm, Patterns, Spirit

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• Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

  Karen Duffy

  Beach, Water, Balls

  "Model lives with chronic disease". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

  Carrie Fisher

  Bipolar, Being Free, Three

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• Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Risk

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• I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, People, Bipolar

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• Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

  Sigmund Freud

  Talking, Complaining, Lioness

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

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• This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Art, Evil, Joy

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• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Lee Haney

  Cancer, Heart, Holiday

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• Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Atheist, Self

  "On Spiritual Truths" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Suffering, Causes, Difficult

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• The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Art, Reading, Night

  Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.232, University of Illinois Press

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• They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

  Naomi Judd

  Knowing Who You Are, Numbers, Trying

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• I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

  Tony Judt

  Writing, Ideas, Done

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• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Medicine, Profound, Today

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• Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Pain, Alzheimer's, Self

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