Top 1200 Illness And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.

Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.

We cannot allow those with mental illness or record of hate or violence access guns and terrorize this country.

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.

If we cannot remain present during sleep, if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? If we enter our dreams and interact with the mind's images as if they are real, we should not expect to be free in the state after death. Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.

Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and the death and capture of many other al-Qa'ida leaders and operatives, does not mark the end of that terrorist organization or its efforts to attack the United States and other countries.

When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.

I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

But death we are, and death we've always been.

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

I've struggled more with guys, depression drugs, family and career than I ever have with my illness. I'm not an innocent and I'm not a child.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

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

There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.

My dad was a loyal congressman until his death. The Congress didn't respect him after his death and filed cases against me.

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.

I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I used to bowl a lot at the death while bowling in the IPL, but it serves as a confidence booster that I can do a lot more with the ball at the start of the innings and at the death.

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

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

Haven't we all been taken aback when an illness suddenly causes the voice to crack and sometimes dry up completely?

I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Whether you are aware of it or not, if you eat right then you are giving yourself the best chance of defending against illness.

Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to get on with things.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.