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Diabetes Quotes

On diagnosis, denial, and living with a health condition.

These diabetes quotes include a candid admission of denial after diagnosis alongside a note on how success can bring health complications like this one. See our Diabetic quotes for related experience.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

Quotes by Zong Qinghou

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Quotes by Xavier Becerra

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

Quotes by Xavier Becerra

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Quotes by Thomas Willis

Diabetic Quotes

Diabetes can be successfully prevented and managed by a healthy lifestyle. When not managed, it can lead to severe organ damage and death.

Quotes by Tedros Adhanom

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.

Quotes by Stephen Wallem

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

Quotes by Stephen Furst

When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one being diabetes. I became a diabetic at 17 and went on this road of kind of self-destruction, eating-wise, until I was 40.

Quotes by Stephen Furst

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.

Quotes by Stephen Furst

Diagnosed Quotes

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.

Quotes by Ron Santo

Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute...

Quotes by Ron Santo

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

Quotes by Robert Atkins

There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

Quotes by Paula Deen

We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.

Quotes by Patrick Soon-Shiong

Diagnosis Quotes

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

Quotes by Nell Carter

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.

Quotes by Mike Rogers

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

Quotes by Mark Hyman

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

Quotes by John Ratzenberger

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

Quotes by John Ratzenberger

Disease Quotes

The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

Quotes by Joel Salatin

Frequently Asked Questions

What experiences do these diabetes quotes cover?
Diagnosis, initial denial, and how the condition affects different communities at noticeably different rates.
Is there a quote about reacting to a diagnosis?
Yes, one speaker admits to denying the diagnosis at first rather than accepting it right away.
Does any quote link diabetes to broader health trends?
One does, noting how rising success and lifestyle change can come paired with elevated blood sugar and related illness.
Is there data on community-level disparities?
Yes, one line points out the condition shows up roughly two times as often in one community compared to another.
What topic pairs well with this one?
Our Diagnosed quotes explore the broader experience of receiving a health diagnosis.

Others highlight how the condition affects communities unevenly, pointing to real disparities worth understanding. Explore our Diagnosed and Disease quotes.