Top 333 Ill Quotes

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
Albert Bandura
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.
William Temple
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Aeschylus
Books and marriage go ill together.
Moliere
Aside from doing everything possible to provide programs for people who are seriously ill, I want to do everything humanly possible to help create a more caring society so that we can begin to counter the painful loneliness and sense of helplessness which has engulfed too many of our people.
Rosalynn Carter
When America’s early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.
Paul Harvey
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
Boris Pasternak
I hate getting ill, it irritates me so I try to stay reasonably healthy.
Bill Bailey
Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It’s unnatural. Unless you’re left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I’ve long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
Dan Jenkins
I hadn’t stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn’t the same as being beaten.
Victor LaValle
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.
Robert Musil
I’ve always been aware of mortality because I’ve always had ill health most of my life.
John Tavener
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Some people are born skinny, and that’s just the way it is. You can’t point a finger at them and say they’re ill or anorexic. It isn’t fair to people born that way.
Heidi Klum
While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the bills, so in my 20s I became the sole income earner in my family.
Jagmeet Singh
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Thomas Fuller
I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.
Ellen Stofan
I’m a Bieber fan, man! That kid is ill!
Travis Scott
You work hard, you sacrifice for everything you do, and in one second, someone can tarnish your name – someone can bad-mouth you, and someone can say things. People let all of the good things gets washed away because someone spoke ill of them.
Karen Civil
As a player I have to be ultra-careful, especially in supermarkets. How often does somebody pick up something, realize they don’t want it and put it back for someone else to touch. So yes, I put my mask and gloves on to be safe because you don’t want to get ill, do you?
Matt Doherty
I have never been affected by terror, but here in Iran, I have never felt any ill will toward me – the opposite, actually.
Jordan Burroughs
Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It’s like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.
David Bohm
I’m always surprised to rediscover that there’s something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we’re in charge is probably ill founded.
Thomas McGuane
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Ovid
It’s impossible to make a record when you’re ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can’t make decisions. It all sounds terrible.
Alison Krauss
In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career – writing – that could accommodate being ill.
Hilary Mantel
It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a

It’s maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill – he was an alcoholic – so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn’t know how to get it out.
Diane Kruger
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality… That seems mentally ill.
Phil Elverum
I’ve been booed before. There have been times when I’ve wanted to boo myself. But a lot of ill feelings can be cured by winning.
Jason Collins
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell
The thing with cancer is that it’s usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.
Amy Hoggart
I still subscribe to the theory that Ronald Reagan once pronounced: that I will never speak ill will of my fellow Republican.
George P. Bush
Secrets keep addicts ill and cost lives.
Drew Pinsky
I make music, I check the mix and if its right, Ill put it to bed and move on. The memories are all in your mind, I dont have time to look at old stuff.
Tony Hadley
‘Licensed to Ill’ was like a cold, and we took so much vitamin C that we’d never get that cold again.
Ad-Rock
A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the vice-president to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead.
Muhammadu Buhari
I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
Damon Galgut
There were plenty of times before I did stand-up where I needed counselling, but I didn’t go because it would have meant I was officially ill.
James Acaster
Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it’s where I first started putting on shows.
Hannibal Buress
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
Frank Dobson
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open – any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
Dennis Ritchie
My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don’t speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation as a mum, but you can’t have it.
Louise Nurding
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy’s hand, when you hate mutually.
Aeschylus
My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
Frances McDormand
Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I’ve learned to accept people’s lack of long-term compassion for others while they live their busy lives.
Yolanda Hadid