Quotes about Illness

"Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy."
-Charles Fillmore

"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change."
-Herodotus

"Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull."
-Albert Camus

"The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones."
-Peter McWilliams

"He's a real good guy. He really is. He has an illness and he's just gotten some tough breaks, it seems like."
-Doug Jolley

"The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!"
-Mark Russell

"People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping."
-Cary Cooper

"Not only misrepresent(ed) the extent of my illness but also the treatment involved."
-Dan Fogelberg

"My brother was here during our mom's illness and surgeries, so he couldn't be with us today because of his work."
-Pat Champion

"Without any symptoms, it's hard to say that one has an illness."
-Robert Reischauer

"It's one of a number of pathogens that are probably in the water that could cause illness."
-Tom Skinner

"They changed technology, the way that most of us deal with chronic illness."
-Maggie Daley

"We had a hung jury, ... and instead, he used (the holdout juror's) illness as an excuse to dismiss her from the jury."
-Lew Wasserman

"The biggest thing is prevention of heat illness and we're definitely all over that."
-Jeff Hogan

"She lost her housing because of him. That only deepened the illness in a way that is very sad."
-Teresa Caffese

"My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies."
-W. C. Fields

"We have lots of respiratory illness."
-Kathy Bailey

"So, it may be that SARS is causing a slightly different or a slightly less severe form of illness at this point."
-Iain Simpson

"Due to illness and injuries, we ended up with just two substitutes to end the game. But our grit and determination pulled us through."
-Greg Wall

"One of the issues faced in determining the background for any incident is determining the potential contribution of a drug or the contribution of the underlying illness."
-David Reddy

"It's OK to talk about mental illness. No one should be embarrassed about it."
-Nioka Campbell

"Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick."
-Tom Carper

"It causes severe illness and high mortality rates."
-Dr. Mark Horton

"Food-borne illness is an issue that has been shoved to the back of the shelf for far too long."
-Carol Tucker Foreman

"If children are picked up (diagnosed) earlier in the course of their illness they should do better because they will be referred to hospital more quickly."
-Dr. Matthew Thompson

"They have gone to people fighting illness, experiencing a death in the family, going through a divorce, or perhaps just have some traumatic experience to deal with."
-Shirley Letner

"We showed you can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies, but when your partner falls ill. We showed it is not just death that can give you a broken heart, but illness -- even when the spouses don't die."
-Dr. Nicholas Christakis

"Not until then did many who suffered illness realize that they were not alone."
-Paul Henderson