An apple a day feeds the tapeworm to stay.

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions of Americans are totally batshit.but having perused the various tests available that they...

Doctors are great–as long as you don’t need them.

So much in a relationship changes when a partner is seriously ill, helpless yet blameless, and indefatigably needy. I felt old. [p. 99] The animal part of him in pain accepted my caring. But the...

I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drawn.

Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him...

Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies.

But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if...

Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

I don’t deserve either her love or this illness. That’s a stupid thing though. Things happen whether you deserve them or not.

Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult...

Fatigue had started to set in…and now my eyes showed it as I struggled to keep them open.

He was looked upon with so much respect even before (his illness). Now, it’s legendary status. He’s the nicest guy you’ll ever meet, and he’s a hard-core worker. He has only one gear: all out.

I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating a sandwich, instead of tearing at the injustice of it all...

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

Hastalıkta hayal gücü her şeydir. Ona gerektiği gibi başvurulduğunda iyileştirir, ama hayal gücü insanı öldürür de. Bedenin hayal gücüyde sıkıcıdır, hatta her şeyi oldukları haliyle kavrar. Rüyalar hayal gücünün şiiri, hastalık ve düzyazısıdır. Hiç durmadan...

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

It’s normal to shy away from illness and death. It’s natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing…

If you tell someone you have depression, they will often say, “Oh, I’ve been depressed before, too.” The difference lies between being depressed and having depression. Everyone’s been depressed at one time or another, but...

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

The tongues of hell are dull.

The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression....

Vivre est une maladie, dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les seize heures ; c’est un palliatif : la mort est le remède.

My words to Anna, as we stood contemplating the Scuola Grande di San Marco, moments before entering Venice Hospital, came true: ‘With a façade like that, I could even accept having a deformed child.’ I...

Sometimes with a flutter of agitated worry that felt like a beetle was trapped inside my ribs. p. 90

[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own...

A man’s illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

His relationship with illness was flirtatious; only a particularly attractive ailment could tempt him into bed.

Far rather would she that he were dead! She could not sit beside him when he stared so and did not see her and made everything terrible; sky and tree, children playing, dragging carts, blowing...

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

The origin of illness may be in the past, but the virulent crisis must be dynamically tackled. I believe in attacking the core of the illness, through its present symptoms, quickly, directly. The past is...

He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely...

Before I knew it, I was once again being whisked down the hallways at the new hospital into an even bigger room, one that, unbeknownst to me, would be my home for what would feel...

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

I should have danced more when I had no fear of falling.

The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.

Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have...

They’re not doing much for themselves. I’m sure they’d rather slip away, relax their fingers and float, but they can’t. They’re not allowed. Effort is so painful; our knuckles are white, yet we keep clinging....

Love is an illness which doesn’t have good nor recompense.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like her body was trying to become diaphanous. Instead of getting harder and stronger...

The limited (laboratory) data we have says that, okay, it’s not going to prevent an illness but it may reduce the severity of the illness. But we haven’t had enough good data to tell us...

Regaining health is more difficult an objective then becoming ill. Becoming ill is a random act of ignorance and regaining health is an intentional effort in frustration.

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.