Quotes About Fighting Illness

#1. Everyone is a Taoist at heart. Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into practice ... as soon as someone gets sick, they fight the illness, rather than trying to find out the meaning or purpose behind it.

Arnold Mindell

#2. A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

Saul Williams

#3. People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Andre Maurois

#4. Because the truth was I was tired. I was tired of fighting but more importantly I was tired of losing, of being disappointed.

Laekan Zea Kemp

#5. The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

Norman Cousins

#6. Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.

Ricky Hatton

#7. I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

Yayoi Kusama

#8. There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.

Niall Williams

#9. I can only drive slowly."
"That's all right."
"And I can only do left turns."
Rose ran downstairs, grabbed a road atlas, and ran triumphantly back up again. "Wales is left! Look! It's left all the way!

Hilary McKay

#10. I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

Kangana Ranaut

#11. But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Melina Marchetta

#12. Now here's a good one:
you're lying on your deathbed.
You have one hour to live.
Who is it, exactly, you have needed
all these years to forgive?

Louise Penny

#13. I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

Yann Martel

#14. Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social class, because a body can't grow well while fighting off nine siblings' cold viruses.

Arianne Cohen

#15. My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

Shawn Amos

#16. Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

Mariel Hemingway

#17. Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

William Styron

#18. My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years.

Columba Bush

#19. It's for personal reasons, I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with fighting with your brothers, getting any sort of illness that had intestinal ramifications, starting your period, and money.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. I have this one little life to live with, it's not the plan I had in mind but I can accept its the calling of my soul. The irony in gaining freedom through the heartbreak of stillness.

Nikki Rowe