Sickness Quotes

“And the deal with so many chronic illnesses is that most people won't want to believe you. They will tell you that you look great, that it might be in your head only, that it is likely stress, that everything is okay. None of these are the right things to say to someone whose entire existence is a fairly consistent torture of the body and mind. They say it because they are well-intentioned usually, because they wish you the best, but they also say it because you make them uncomfortable. Your existence is evidence of death....”
― Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir

“It is no coincidence then that doctors and patients and the entire Lyme community report—anecdotally, of course, as there is still a frustrating scarcity of good data on anything Lyme-related—that women suffer the most from Lyme. They tend to advance into chronic and late-stage forms of the illness most because often it's checked for last, as doctors often treat them as psychiatric cases first. The nebulous symptoms plus the fracturing of articulacy and cognitive fog can cause any Lyme patient to simply appear mentally ill and mentally ill only. This is why we hear that young women—again, anecdotally—are dying of Lyme the fastest. This is also why we hear that chronic illness is a women's burden. Women simply aren't allowed to be physically sick until they are mentally sick, too, and then it is by some miracle or accident that the two can be separated for proper diagnosis. In the end, every Lyme patient has some psychiatric diagnosis, too, if anything because of the hell it takes getting to a diagnosis.”
― Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir

“I view the modern workplace as somewhere that you go to have your long term health severely damaged.”
― Steven Magee

“A smart patient realizes that the person most capable of diagnosing and treating their health issues is themselves.”
― Steven Magee

“In modern society, it is not enough to be an engineer, a doctor, a chemist, a biologist, or a physicist, you must be all of them to understand why human health is failing on such a massive scale.”
― Steven Magee

“The corporate government is a blatantly corrupt group of people who make their living by willfully damaging the health and well being of your family.”
― Steven Magee

“The modern human is drowning in an invisible sea of man made energy.”
― Steven Magee

“There is a very strange and undetectable sickness in the modern population that responds to huge doses of vitamin B12.”
― Steven Magee

“Too sick to work and not sick enough to die is common in modern society.”
― Steven Magee

“For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on the warmest day would I want to go buy her medicine.”
― Kafū Nagai, Three Japanese Short Stories

“I want you to love me for me, for now, for as much time as we have. I swear I'll do all I can to take care of myself. I already do. But that's it. If that's enough, I'm yours. If you can only love me if you have a guarantee that I'll be around forever, then find someone else to be terrified of losing and let me go.”
― Sonali Dev, A Distant Heart

“Je n'ai jamais si peu souffert que depuis que je sais que j'ai le sida, je suis très attentig aux manifestations de la progression du virus, il me semble connaître la cartographie de ses colonisations, de ses assauts et de ses replis, je crois savoir là où il couve et là où il attaque, sentir les zones encore intouchées, mais cette lutte à l'intérieur e moi, qui est celle-ci organiquement bien réelle, des analyses scientifiques en témoignent, n'est pour l'instant rien, sois patient mon bonhomme, en regard des maux certainement fictifs qui me torpillaient.”
― Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

“maintenant qu'il connaissait cette douleur Muzil la craignait par-dessus tout, ça se lisait désormais dans son oeil la panique d'une souffrance qui n'est plus maîtrisée à l'intérieur du corps mais provoquée artificiellement par une intervention extérieure au foyer du mal sous prétexte de la juguler, il était lair que pour Muzil cette souffrance était plus abominable que sa souffrance intime, devenue familière”
― Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

“The freedom of death is the ultimate compensation for the misery of life.”
― Steven Magee

“Earth that is electrified by the electrical utility system is a known human health hazard.”
― Steven Magee

“The supplement industry is the biggest threat to the pharmaceutical industry.”
― Steven Magee

“There is only one guaranteed way to be sure if you are vitamin B12 deficient and that is to get your doctor to prescribe you high dose vitamin B12 injections and see if your health improves in the long term.”
― Steven Magee

“Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) was a mystery that needed to be solved.”
― Steven Magee

“Politicians are in the process of committing species extinction in honor of their corporate sponsors and the general public are along for the sickening ride.”
― Steven Magee

“Sickness is the motivator for research by those that recognize improved health is just a discovery away.”
― Steven Magee

“Anyone who has experienced a debilitating sleep disorder knows what it is like to be the walking dead.”
― Steven Magee

“A sick man spends more than a rich man.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“...and everything is an incurable sickness.
The indolence of feeling, the frustration of never knowing how to do anything, the inability to take action...”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Our ability to face trials, tribulations, suffering, sickness or disease all rest in the power of God working through us, giving us all we need to get through it. - Hidden Treasures”
― Robin Bertram, Hidden Treasures: Finding Hope at the End of Life's Journey

“The biggest thing that Stephen Hawking taught me is that an extremely sickly and sedentary person can live to the ripe old age of seventy six.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you know that high altitude workers have been displaying gender changing issues?”
― Steven Magee

“The medical profession may make you sicker and kill you prematurely if you let them.”
― Steven Magee

“Fear of the sun will eventually make you sick.”
― Steven Magee

“The pathology of greed is always greater than the object that greed pursues. Therefore, anything obtained by greed will eventually be killed by the very greed that worked so diligently to possess it. Hence, the pathology.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sanity is socially and politically determined and when politics change, the definition of who is well and unwell, who is sane and who is sick, tends to change with it. The traits of good mental health, of the supposedly well-balanced individual, are often suspiciously similar to those of the compliant citizen, the obedient worker, the dutiful woman - whatever those traits might be, depending on the mood of the world and the whims of the powerful. Those who oppose the existing order can count on being labelled as deranged, as irrational, especially if they make the mistake of showing emotion in a power regime that considers all emotions weakness, all feelings laughable - except the rage of the ‘white working class’, as long as this is properly harnessed in the service of vested interests.”
― Laurie Penny, Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults