Top 1200 Illness And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery in it, because it cannot die anymore. You think it has no mystery because life has disappeared? No, it has no mystery because now it cannot die anymore. Death has disappeared, and with death automatically life disappears. Life is only one of the ways of death's expression.

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

Once I faced the fact I was going to deal with illness for the rest of my life, I got on with what I really wanted to do.

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health.

For someone to say your son has a life-threatening illness only on the phone is hard to believe.

So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

Many people with mental illness suffer in silence, afraid to seek help for fear of victimisation.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

My poverty taught me a lot. If someone dies, I cannot cry as I have seen so much hardship and death. I went to shoot even the day my dad had died. Death is reality.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?" EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. "Doesn't anyone know?" ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? "Gosh!" Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

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

Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a non-issue.

What I have on my left calf is two skeletons; when you put them together, they form a heart, and it says, 'Love till Death.' That represents me and my wife - 'til death do us part.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.