668 Quotes About Illness

I didn't really want to hurt myself. I just wanted my old body back. That, and my old sense of normalcy, which may not have been all that normal to begin with, but it was nothing like this. This was the exact opposite of normal. This was a David Lynch movie.

Maybe in time most wounds will heal; but this, this tragedy - it will last with me an entire lifetime. I can either make it my greatest story or fall short of who i am supposed to be, thats the only real choice i have left in all of this and from there my path will begin.

What is cancer, he thought to himself, if not a terrorist attack from above? What is it that God is doing, if not terrorizing us in protest against...something. Something so lofty and transcendental that it is beyond our grasp?

I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined ... imposed silence about any area of our lives is a tool for separation and powerlessness.

Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.

Bending over her bed, I saw the smileI must have seen when gaping up from the crib.Knowing death will come, sensing its onset,may be a fair price for consciousness.But looking at my sister, I wishedshe could have died by surprise,without ever knowing about death.Too late. Wendy said, “I am in three parts.Here on the left is red. That is pain.On the right is yellow. That is exhaustion.The rest is white. I don’t know yet what white is.

The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.

Now is when the point of the story changes.

My pains, sometimes seem like witch hunters: confess, confess, confess. Like a heavy stone on my rib-cage.Confess to what?And, of course, I would confess, if only I knew what it was they wanted to hear.