Illness Quotes Quotes

“She wears it so beautifully doesn’t she, her pain… Always smiling, always positive…. always happy to help… It’s like a garment perfectly tailored to fit the way she carries it… with a touch of grace… and the quietness of that sad smile….
All so you’d never know how heavy it really was.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Theres a remarkable amount of strength residing in those who move forward without being able to physically move. Ones that carry the weight of illness or a disability, they battle wars most know nothing about. They are the true warriors of the world, the ones who have every reason to quit but never do.”
― Nikki Rowe

“We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“Doctors don't believe anything unless you can prove it to them.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife

“To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The greater your health the greater your wealth.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Usually I take this opportunity to say something inspiring, about how my illness has changed me for the better and given me a clear purpose in life for both the work I do and the person I want to be. While all these things are true, the fact is that sometimes I'm in a physical state where I just don’t have it in me to be inspirational. And that’s all right – inspirational words are meaningless without the context of genuine human struggle.”
― Michael Bihovsky

“I don't believe in the word " incurable "
I believe to find a cure we need to deconstruct the cause.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“Could illness and pain hold greater purpose than we imagine?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“God has graciously sewn laughter into our days, bright moments tucked among the shadows of illness and pain, and while those moments don't change our circumstances, they can lessen our pain and shift our hearts toward joy.”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

“Sickness is a benign rehearsal for death. With luck, some other understudy will go on in your stead before your final bow becomes inevitable.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Illness is out of my dictionary when the soul yearns to do and achieve great things.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Colin had just accomplished the impossible. He had broken down the walls around my heart. The walls I had been building far before my illnesses but had grown even sturdier since my diagnosis. And for the first time, it felt like I'd been set free.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can’t afford medical care.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Often when we seek comfort, what we long for is healing. If God removed the pain, frustration, discomfort or illness each time we sought His comfort, would we be drawn to Him out of love or simply opportunity?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness

“Two things when they come wont ask, who are you? what are you? and how old are you? First illness and the second one is death.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Illness was a monster that out of nowhere jumped on you with its claws out.”
― Christopher X. Shade, The Good Mother of Marseille

“TALKING ILL ABOUT OTHERS IS A SEVERE ILLNESS”
― J. Ruby

“My only illness is that sometimes I'm too honest with people.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Illnesses are the result of prolonged negative thoughts. You can heal them with positive thoughts.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The yogi rarely gets sick, just because he is practicing his mind control on a daily basis. Positive thinking protects him from illness.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The fact that humanity has been given the power to procreate shows that we are responsible, not to blame God, for our weaknesses or illnesses.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“He had to know, on some level, that this trip was either a celebration of improvement in health, or a last hurrah. And he still had yet to find out which one it was.”
― Brooke Gilbert

“That’s not baggage. It’s not acceptable to call your illnesses baggage.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“It was like I was sick with a new disorder and the diagnosis was Colin.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“I had fought for this moment. I had fought for my life, what health I had, the ability to live my life, and the ability to love. And he was worth every moment I had fought so hard for. I never could have imagined what I was truly fighting so desperately for. But there he sat.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“It is better to commit suicide, than to walk the full journey with a fool.”
― Nathan Makhasane