All Quotes By Tag: Illness
“Inspiration gives us courage to keep going in the face of illness, misfortune, and loss.”
“She wears it so beautifully doesn’t she, her pain… Always smiling, always positive…. always happy to help… It’s like a garment perfectly tailored to fit the way she carries it… with a touch of grace… and the quietness of that sad smile…. All so you’d never know how heavy it really was.”
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“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”
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“Our task [as Christians] is to be faithful to the calling of the cross; to live in God’s new world as the agents of his love,and to pray that the cross we carry today will become part of the healing and reconciliation of the world. We will not understand in the present time how it is that our pain, our illness, our heartbreak, our deep frustration, is somehow taken up into the pain of God and the healing of the world; but if we offer it back to God that is precisely what will happen.”
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“Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.”
“He always thought that Touie’s long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.”
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“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 lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there’s hardly a change between the two.”
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“It’s normal to shy away from illness and death. It’s natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.”
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“Sometimes there’s nothing you can do. […] Sometimes they don’t have enough to fight with.”
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“Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it’s just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.”
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“Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.”
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“what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.”
“(On his gravestone): “I told you I was ill”.”
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“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
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“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”