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  • The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

    Health   Body   Forget  
  • The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.

    Beautiful   Believe   Men  
  • I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

    "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.
  • In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet.

    Robert Lowell (1969). “Notebook 1967-68”
  • I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.

    Girl   Doctors   Tests  
    "Brett Ratner's Apologies: The Last Stand". www.mtv.com. November 9, 2011.
  • Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

    Drug   May   Disease  
    The Village Comedy Vol. II
  • A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby
  • I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

    Hurt   Heart   Night  
  • The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

    Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818). “Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life”, p.112
  • Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

    Self   Hands   Discipline  
    "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.
  • We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

    Crime   Stage   Certain  
  • I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

    Children   Wonder   Fats  
  • Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

    Jobs   People   Helping  
    "Why am I doing this absurd job?". www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.
  • We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.

    Pain   Self   Challenges  
  • I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am.

  • It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

    People   May   Medical  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”
  • Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess

    Cat   Voice   Wow  
  • Everyone thinks I'm a hypochondriac. It makes me sick.

    "Fictional character: Felix Unger". "The Odd Couple", www.imdb.com. 1970-1975.
  • Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

    Song   Thinking   Body  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

    Kings   Book   Doctors  
  • How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

    Pain   Fear   Self Esteem  
  • I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

  • Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

    Taken   Worry   Healthy  
  • The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.

    Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”
  • Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

    Body   Hysterical   Ennui  
    Letter to Martha Jefferson, 28 March (1787)
  • I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac.

    Doctors   Voice   Calling  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystal-clear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. . . . Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

    Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.19, Library of America
  • After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.

    Four   Hours   Symptoms  
    Twitter post from Aug 09, 2012
  • It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

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