668 Quotes About Illness

Wind turbines and residential communities do not belong together.

The mind, the body and the soul are all parts of the same miraculous machinery. Illnesses are messages from them saying, " Honey, we gotta talk, NOW!

It really doesn't matter where I am now. I've exhausted all remedies, I've swallowed all climates.

You are not your illness.

Acceptance is a deceptive word. It suggests compliance, a consenting to my condition and to who I have become. This form of acceptance is often seen as weakness, submission. We say I accept my punishment. Or I accept your decision. But such assent, while passive in essence, does provide the stable, rocklike foundation for coping with a condition that will not go away. It is a powerful passivity, the Zen of Illness, that allows for endurance.

وكما أن المرض يعدى فالصحة أيضا

The medical profession is really bad in treating mental illness and chronic fatigue.

Once my hair is gone, once I can no longer taste my food, once I have passed out while shopping for a bread knife in IKEA, once the ex-lovers have all visited to make one last attempt to get me in bed, once the generous humiliations of crowdsourced charity have assured me months of organic produce, I have become a patient. The old ways are through. Any horizon is made of medicine.

If this bloody disease has taught me anything, it's to spend more time with people you like.