668 Quotes About Illness

Working at very high altitudes may induce illness and disease into sea level adapted humans.

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.

He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

Trying to show that you have mental illness to somebody who’s never had it is like trying to describe a new color to the colorblind

I hoped for a miracle, but most of all, I hoped for someone to truly understand what I was going through.I can't make you live longer, I can't stop you from hurting but I can give you one wish as someone did for me. My wish helped me find purpose, faith, and courage. Friendship reaches beyond time and the true miracle is in giving, not recieving.

Illness has a lot to teach wellness. But when I am ill I forget these things. The trick is to keep hold of that knowledge. To turn recovery into prevention. To live how I live when I am ill, without being ill.

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.