D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Life is an incurable disease.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

To have a body is to suffer.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

I've fought physical disability and was cured because of naturopathy and yoga.

I've done acupuncture, and I believe in it. That's the first place I go if I'm having any particular pain anywhere.

People are extremely vulnerable when they're brought into the hospital. When you see people in those moments, it's a privilege to watch that and learn from it.

Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.

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

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

No pills gonna cure my ill.

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?