Illness Quotes
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
Hippocrates -
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Fritz Perls
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou -
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
Moliere -
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
Lao Tzu -
As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
Vanessa Bayer -
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
Andrew Solomon -
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Karl Kraus
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb -
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
Abbe Pierre -
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry -
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
Abraham Verghese -
When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.
Lauren Daigle -
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
Hans Eysenck
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My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
Hamish Bowles -
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
Fran Drescher -
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
Yusuf Hamied -
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
Kate Millett -
I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
Frances McDormand -
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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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 -
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 -
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
Jack Osbourne -
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
Abraham Verghese