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Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess -- Scott Westerfeld
I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be. -- Britt Ekland
I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac. -- Alber Elbaz
I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack. -- Antonio Banderas
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
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
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. -- Ellie Goulding
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
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
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
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
... hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ... -- Spiro T. Agnew
In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet. -- Robert Lowell
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
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
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. -- Erasmus Darwin
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases. -- Caskie Stinnett
Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. -- Thomas Jefferson
Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. -- Mortimer Collins
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
Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why dont you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac. -- Javier Bardem
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
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
My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine. -- Ted Danson
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
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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