Illness Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old illness quotes, illness sayings, and illness proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.
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Illness cannot exist in a body that has harmonious thoughts.
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You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency
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Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins.
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All illness no matter whether you stubbed your toe, battle cancer or are blowing your nose constantly with a common cold is simply slowed down vibration.
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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.
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Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
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The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
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Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.
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Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.
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Sickness sometimes is a great blessing. People become angels through sickness.
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For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
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Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
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The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
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Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.
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The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
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To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.
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Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
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Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
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Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
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Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
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The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.
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Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.
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Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.
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What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
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Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony.
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Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
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Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.
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Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
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Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.
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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.
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Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.
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Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
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Every illness is an opportunity for compassionate revelations.
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Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
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Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.
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Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.
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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
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The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.
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It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.
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Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.