Marcel Proust Quotes

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

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

If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be.

Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. They can be a powerful influence for good when they're on the positive side, and they can and do make you physically ill when they're on the negative side. I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts! Let me tell you, junk thoughts can destroy you even more quickly than junk food. Junk thoughts are something to be wary of.

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

What I really found myself interested in was the idea that our minds our so powerful and when we're living, the mind is dampened by the body. As crazy as our minds can get, they're only so crazy because they're physically housed.

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

To believe you're being psychically attacked gives you an understanding of your illness that no Western doctor can provide; this can be reassuring when you've exhausted the Western doctor tool kit, and the doctors are sending you to acupuncturists for pain relief.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.