Hypochondria Quotes

“After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.”
― Stephen Colbert

“You’re not a doctor. Remember that.
No, but I play one on the internet.”
― Tracy H. Tucker, I Kill Me: Tales of A Jilted Hypochondriac

“It sometimes happens that a man who, up until now has believed himself to be gifted with perfect health, opens a medical book, either by chance or to pass the time, and on reading the pathological description of an illness, recognises that he is afflicted by it; enlightened by a fateful flash of insight, he feels at every symptom mentioned some obscure organ shuddering within him, or some hidden fibre of whose role in the body he had been unaware, and he pales as he realises that a death he thought was still a long way off is so imminent.”
― Théophile Gautier, The Jinx

“The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in the body as rather merely excite apprehensions of its existence: and human nature is so constituted – a trait which the animal lacks – that it is able to strengthen or make permanent local impressions simply by paying attention to them, whereas an abstraction – whether produced on purpose or by other diverting occupations – lessen these impressions, or even effaces them altogether.”
― Immanuel Kant, Anthropologie; Fortschritte der Metaphysik Vorlesungen Kants Über Pädagogik; Vorlesungen Kants Über Logik (Classic Reprint)

“We are so used to eating unhealthy food that we deem obsessed with health people who watch what they eat.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.”
― Leigh Kotsilidis, Hypotheticals

“Mom’s a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were dramatizing. I’ll never forget, they did an episode on sickle cell anemia, which as far as I know, is almost exclusively an African-American affliction.”
― Kathy Griffin

“(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die.”
― Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy, The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House

“For my fifty dollars, I want to leave the doctor's office in tears, but instead I walk out feeling like a hypochondriac, which is one of the few things I'm actually not.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

“JANE THROUGHOUT HER life had given short shrift to the sick. A ‘Poor Honey’ was her name for a woman who revelled in weak health, relishing ‘spasms & nervousness & the consequences’.”
― Lucy Worsley

“Body and mind both unemployed, our being becomes a burthen, and every object about us loathsome, even the dearest. Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondria, and that a diseased body.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“An obsession with physical health is a mental disease.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your sisters know what they are about, I dare say, but their measures seem to touch on extremes. I feel that, in any illness, I should be so anxious for professional advice, so very little venturesome for myself, or anybody I loved! But, then, we have been so healthy a family that I can be no judge of what the of self-doctoring may do.”
― Janet Todd, Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd

“Privacy is for people who believe they have forever. Transparency is for people who know they don’t."
— Samer Belami, Emergence at the VUE”
― Sammy Adami, Emergence at the VUE: Voices of a Midlife Crisis