#illness

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness. ↗

— Carre Otis

#dependence #down #fast #found #hopeful

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#doctor #heed #illness #kindness #knowledge

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#illness #mental #mental illness #national #paranoid

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#his #hope #i #illness #just

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#art #concrete #making #me #means

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#enjoy #i #illness #makes #part

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#causes #gulf #gulf war #illness #illnesses

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates? ↗

— David Suzuki

#climb #continue #costs #enable #evolution

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#because #course #death #funny #funny things