Illness quotes
178 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear."
"Health is the greatest of human blessings."
"Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness."
"The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved"
"God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not Number One; He is."
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"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"
""Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III."
"I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you."
"That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing."
"It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it."
"Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness."
"So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then."
"Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness."
"Most illness begins with a negative mind."
"Love is a grave mental illness."
"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness."
"The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable."
"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."
"Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness."
"Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything."
"My main memories of my father are of his illness."
"I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness."
"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."
"Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age."
"Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness."
