31 quotes found
“In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see my...”
“..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.”
“When we imagine ourselves to be in a state of mind, no matter what, we are in that state of mind, and thus in that state of illness which we imagine ourselves to be in, in every state that we imagi...”
“We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.”
“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women w...”
“Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....”
“Being sick successfully is not included in societys panoply of worthy goals.”
“Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.”
“Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.”
“Men could be utter pussycats when they had even a touch of the sniffles.”
“The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses.”
“I did not know what she suffered from, but I knew that her malady must have been horrible; I knew that from the way she used to embrace me.”
“Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent.”
“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 kee...”
“The medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit.”
“The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.”
“Kisses are like cardiograms. They reveal how serious the illness is.”
“The tongues of hell are dull.”
“The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom.”
“I feel like I'm stuck inside my body. Everyone's moved forward, but I've been stuck in the same place. Since I've come into all this awareness lately, the hardest part has been remembering who I us...”
