Top 1200 Chronic Illness Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

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.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

There's no way, of course, to fully understand what an illness does to someone or what emotional state or physical state it puts you in, but to show respect, yeah, definitely I've had a chance to talk to many people that - it wasn't really a specific illness that quote-unquote, I researched, and as I said, if I was a good actor I would have done that. But you know, I just wanted to pay respect without putting too much into it.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.

People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be true of Trump - may not be able to serve, may be quite unfit. So it isn't always the question of a psychiatric diagnosis. It's really a question of what psychological and other traits render one unfit or dangerous.

I'm Dave Chappelle and I'm a chronic masturbator.

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.

It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.

The quality of health care in Germany is not as good as people sometimes believe it to be. We have problems with chronic diseases. The German system allows too many hospitals and specialists to treat chronic diseases. We do not have enough volume in many institutions to deliver good quality, and we do have fairly strict separations ... between primary physicians, office specialists and hospital specialists. But I think the quality problems can be solved in the next couple of years, and we have made major progress in diabetes, coronary artery disease and pulmonary disease care.

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

If success is my drug then I've been on a chronic overdose all my life.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness

My dad is not an alcoholic but has a chronic liver disorder along with heavy diabetes.

Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process.

Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.