668 Quotes About Illness

Everybody here is infirm. Everybody here is infirm.

What I want you to do for me is this: I want to understand certain things and tell them to others.To do it, I have to get them right, so they are hard to resist.Stay with me until I can do this.Afterwards, you can go where you want.

Your dying was a difficult enterprise.First, petty things took up your energies,The small but clustering duties of the sick, Irritant as the cough’s dry rhetoric.Those hours of waiting for pills, shot, X-ray Or test (while you read novels two a day) Already with a kind of clumsy stealthDistanced you from the habits of your health.

Lucky life isn't one long string of horrors and there are moments of peace, and pleasure, as I lie in between the blows.

Our task [as Christians] is to be faithful to the calling of the cross; to live in God's new world as the agents of his love,and to pray that the cross we carry today will become part of the healing and reconciliation of the world. We will not understand in the present time how it is that our pain, our illness, our heartbreak, our deep frustration, is somehow taken up into the pain of God and the healing of the world; but if we offer it back to God that is precisely what will happen.

A well person’s astral projection remains mostly atmospheric, but the deeply ill person in pain, in order to escape it, can sprint away from the pain-husk of the failing body and think themselves into a range beyond range. When pain is so vast, it makes it hard to remember history or miles per hour, which should make the sickbed the incubator for almost all genius and nearly most revolution.

All pain is the result of resistance to the natural self.

We did not know she was sick, but she has come to the fence, walking like a woman who is balancing a sword inside of her body.

There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.