Petra Stunt Quotes

Without insecurities, I think one becomes a little bit of an idiot.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

It's so weird to have someone tell you you're sick when you feel really healthy and good.

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

When you're sick on the road, it's the worst. That's when you become the most vulnerable and neurotic. You become scared. If I had a cold or a chest infection, and I had to sing all those high parts, there was stage fright.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.