Lift up your arms, then, and I’ll slip it on.” I did. But instead of slipping it over my arms, it was himself he slipped between them. He kissed me in the hollow of my...

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy….

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who...

Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you! HELP HER to remove the taboos and the loneliness surrounding this disease; be...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self–to the mediating intellect–as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible...

Deception’ is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from...

He was breathing. That’s the first thing you always check for.

08/14/1025h. Dessert Competitions.08/14/1315h. Illinois State Fair Infirmary; then motel; then Springfield Memorial Medical Center Emergency Room for distention and possible rupture of transverse colon (false alarm); then motel; incapacitated till well after sunset; whole day...

In my head maybe it was a test of love, because there are things about illness which I find revolting.

I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to be connected…or that no one can outrun destiny…or that all roads lead to...

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression,...

…the story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little to tell and it may sound as if I had invented it; but...

If you go looking for love you won’t find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with...

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or...

Ve o hastalık,ey Hamlet,o korkunç hastalık belki düşünce, belki içe bakış değil midir?Yoksa sen,yapmak yerine,yapmak istemediklerini ve yapmak zorunda olduklarını düşünen o adamlar familyasının hüzünlü kahramanı değil misin? Yoksa sen kelimeleri, ki onlar dişidir,eylemlere,ki onlar...

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You’d see Jesus on the cross, and you’d see a dude getting stabbed in the...

Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.

Life is a terminal illness.

That prospect is deeply troubling, because infectious illness is a genie that can be very hard to put back into its bottle. It may kill fewer people in one fell swoop than a raging flood...

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person – I think all serious illnesses do.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Nothing worked. This blazing pain seemed only to be getting worse.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

Two weeks until your cure” she says finally. “Sixteen days” I say, but in my head I’m counting: Seven days. Seven days until I’m free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial...

It was a dead hole, smelling of synthetic leather and disinfectant, both of which odors seemed to emanate from the torn scratched material of the seats that lined the three walls. It smelled of the...

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

It isn’t discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It’s this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain – and it’s known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn’t death that’s the disease.

Severe isn’t a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns…No one responds ‘severe’ when someone asks how her cold is.In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to ‘How’s...

I can’t do that because I have to pick up the kids, and run my business, and … and … who’s got time for fun? Are you insane?” If you don’t have time for fun,...

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier.

I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room, eating our meals together, most of us sleeping in the chairs every night....

Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet...

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Sometimes there’s nothing you can do. […] Sometimes they don’t have enough to fight with.

I mean, that’s at least in part why I ingested chemical waste – it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column...

The day comes in slowly to those who are ill. The night has separated them from the sleepers, who return to them like strangers from a distant land, full of clumsy preparations for the living,...

Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of...

Qualities of a Good Nurse: Go,” I said.”1. Doesn’t pun on your disability,” Isaac said.”2. Gets blood on the first try,” I said.”Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a...

They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve tothink otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put...

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even...

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.