Top 1200 Illness And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.

But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

It's in poor taste to question anyone's illness diagnosed through specific testing by their doctor.

Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

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

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

Mental illness, hate and anger exist everywhere, but in America too often it comes armed.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

I grew up in a small town, and mental illness wasn't something anyone talked about.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment. Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

Mental illness is real, and I got them. I don't know if it's the multiple concussions or the lifestyle choices.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himeself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

When you're in the military, you teeter on the edge of that line of life and death. The reason you feel so alive when you come through is because you know you've cheated death - and that and the adrenaline rush is addictive, no question.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth. Later, he passes from the consciousness of luminous astral birth to the consciousness of dark astral death and awakens in a new physical body. Thus astral death is physical birth. These recurrent cycles of physical and astral encasements are the ineluctable destiny of all unenlightened men.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

He [Death] pulled a pure-black iPad from thin air. Death tapped the screen a few times and all Frank could think was: Please don't let there be an app for reading souls

The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.