668 Quotes About Illness

People tell you to keep your "courage" up. But the time for courage is when she was sick, when I took care of her and saw her suffering, her sadness, and when I had to conceal my tears. Constantly one had to make a decision, put on a mask and that was courage.--Now, courage means the will to live and there's all too much of that.

Next to the ague, curiosity is the most devilish affliction a body can be stung with. It's the most humanizing thing next to being born and can't be resisted....

And suddenly I was seized with a desire, a craving, something more furious and more imperious than I had ever felt before—to live! I want to live! I will live. I clenched my teeth, my hands, concentrated my whole being in this wild, grief-stricken endeavour towards existence.

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.

When the road stretches long and dark and ragged, it’s sweetness that remains at the end of it.

Life is not meant to be a montage of catastrophes. It’s also not a giant prison, and neither are these bizarre, meaty casings we are housed in for the time being. And they’d make terrible ones anyway. These bodies aren’t exactly built to last. They get sick and get old and fall apart. But truth is, the me that is me is not the sick one here. And I refuse to feel imprisoned.

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.