A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.
I will tell you something about stories. . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.
Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.
Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
The. . . experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless. . . quackery and fraud. . . These experts are the professional descendants of experts. . . confident that mental illness should be cured by drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. . . . This is the Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight around.
Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.
It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.
Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.
I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness