Illness Quotes - page 14

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)
I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness. View quote
Lysette Anthony
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. View quote
Marcia Angell
I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both. View quote
Isabel Sanford
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. View quote
Jack Henry Abbott
Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming. View quote
Kidd Kraddick
At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it. View quote
Mary Ann Mobley
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. View quote
Mary Garden
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. View quote
Marya Hornbacher
I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health. View quote
Olivia Newton-John
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us. (Patti Davis)
The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness. View quote
Robert Winston
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not. View quote
Rich Lowry
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. View quote
Richard Avedon
In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will 'be an app for that' to keep you on your best path to wellness. View quote
Sheldon Whitehouse
Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts. View quote
Steve Schirripa
Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways. View quote
Susan Minot
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer. View quote
Susannah McCorkle
Sometimes I say the medication is even tougher than the illness. View quote
Sanya Richards-Ross
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition. View quote
Tammy Baldwin
Depression is a physical illness. (Terry Bradshaw)
I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members. View quote
Wendy E. Long
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes. View quote
Zong Qinghou
Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia. View quote
Zeena Schreck
A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy. View quote
Lauren Bacall