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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. (Quote by - Irvin S. Cobb)

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. (Quote by - Annette Funicello)

I don't think I had a chance to show my best - that's the really disappointing part, not being able to find out. The illness made me me. Because of it, I think I achieved a lot more because I had to work harder for it. (Quote by - Jonah Lomu)

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. (Quote by - Hippocrates)

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly. (Quote by - Polly Toynbee)

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956. (Quote by - Kenneth H. Cooper)

If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter. (Quote by - Sun Myung Moon)

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality. (Quote by - John Hutton)

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life. (Quote by - Daniel Craig)

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. (Quote by - Lance Armstrong)

What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line. (Quote by - Bernard Sanders)

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. (Quote by - Abbe Pierre)

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. (Quote by - Jane Roberts)

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick (Quote by - Ben Johnson)

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality. (Quote by - Pierre Loti)

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her. (Quote by - Bob Costas)

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof. (Quote by - Kate Millett)

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. (Quote by - Jack Henry Abbott)

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. (Quote by - Hans Eysenck)

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. (Quote by - Duc de La Rochefoucauld)

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