46 Hypochondriac Quotes
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Short Hypochondriac Quotes
- A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him. — Mignon McLaughlin
- It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician. — William C. Bryant
- Everyone thinks I'm a hypochondriac. It makes me sick. — Felix Unger
- I'm not a hypochondriac, but my gynaecologist firmly believes I am. — Rodney Dangerfield
- I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be. — Sayings
- In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet. — Robert Lowell
- Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess — Scott Westerfeld
- I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac. — Alber Elbaz
Hypochondria Quotes
After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria. — Stephen Colbert
I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three. — Chris Martin
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days. — Anne Lamott
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. — Gene Weingarten
I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude. — Woody Allen
Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists. — Franz Grillparzer
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s. — Goodman Ace
All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria. — Mason Cooley
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria. — William Styron
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's. — Goodman Ace
People Writing About Hypochondriac
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Mignon McLaughlin |
370 | 2255 |
 William C. Bryant |
131 | 1138 |
 Rodney Dangerfield |
365 | 4569 |
 Sayings |
6895 | 535 |
 Robert Lowell |
38 | 165 |
 Scott Westerfeld |
208 | 869 |
More Hypochondriac Quotes
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.' — Spiro T. Agnew
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. — Lisa Marie Presley
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. — Javier Bardem
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. — Petra Stunt
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. — Mortimer Collins
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
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. — Alan King
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. — Norman Cousins
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. — Thomas Jefferson
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. — Mika
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. — Erasmus Darwin
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. — Charles Caleb Colton
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. — Brett Ratner
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books. — Betsy Lerner
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest. — Robert Benchley
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases. — Caskie Stinnett
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. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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. — Naomi Wolf
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