276 Illness Quotes for You to Enjoy

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. Muhammad Ali

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Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. Nelson Mandela

People Hide Cancer Will Somebody Extraordinary Way Say Out Give Something Only Come Like Make Because Always Normal Died Stop Regarding Us Appear Illness Let Us Publicity

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk. Nino Schurter

You Try Something Risk Only Limit Avoid Illness Injuries

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. Olivia Newton-John

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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. Ornette Coleman

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We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother's incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they're black. Patrisse Cullors

Life Work Me People Sometimes Black Somebody Country Neglect Severe Ways Torture Brother Rarely Mental Mental Illness Abuse Particular Know Motivates Decided Which Incarceration Moment Illness

The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing... You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months later, you may want to learn to play the saxophone or devote yourself to the church. Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process. Paul Kalanithi

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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. Pete Earley

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It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it. Peter Hook

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My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized. It was shrugged off like a 'symptom' of being female - of her being weak. I also experienced this growing up: I felt that the great pain I experienced was a dramatisation. Petra Collins

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I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality. Pierre Loti

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. Richard Avedon

People Confusion Beauty Become Unprotected Isolated Intellect Roles Illness

I had every stress-related illness you can get. Richard Ben Cramer

You Every Had Get Illness

My mother had never had a day's illness in her life and never thought to have checks. Then, at 78, she discovered she had breast cancer and passed away the next year. But if she'd had a check two years before, they could have done something about it, they could have saved her. Rick Wakeman

Life Day Mother Cancer Thought Year Before Saved About Something Could Never Had Check Checks She Passed Years Discovered Done Breast Cancer Then Next Next Year Illness Away Her Two

Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scraped at the same time. Roger Moore

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I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure. Roger Moore

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One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since. Rosalynn Carter

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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. Salvatore Quasimodo

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