Illness Quotes

It's great to be young and insane.

— Michael Keaton

There are many rooms in the House of Pain.

— Amy Carmichael

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

— Janet C. Long

“Hate is a self-destructive illness.”

— Joan Ambu

“(On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".”

— Spike Milligan

Home is the best place to be sick in.

— Margaret Deland

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

— Norman Cousins

Mental health is health - period.

— Marty Walsh

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

— Kenneth H. Cooper

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

— Roger Moore

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

— Florence Nightingale

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

— M. Scott Peck

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.

— Graeme Obree

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

— David Feherty

Unfortunately, many in our homeless community suffer from severe mental illness.

— Kevin Faulconer

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.

— Ricky Hatton

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a…

— W. H. Auden

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that…

— Patsy Cline

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and…

— Matt Haig

I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.

— Claire Wineland

“School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really…

— Helen Oyeyemi

[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many…

— Tipu Aziz

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well,…

— Pete Earley

“Regaining health is more difficult an objective then becoming ill. Becoming ill is a random act of ignorance and regaining health is…

— Richard Diaz

The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of…

— William S. Burroughs

One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left…

— David Auburn

So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always…

— Thomas Szasz

Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs,…

— Siri Hustvedt

While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its…

— Gail Devers

The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted,…

— Christiane Northrup

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while…

— Joan Baez

“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of…

— Suzy Kassem

“I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees…

— Nikki rowe

It is my greatest joy to share with students this knowledge that I have acquired in the past 50 years of practice…

— Dharma Mittra

Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people…

— John Diamond

The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was…

— Sheena Iyengar

I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic…

— Claire McCaskill

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own…

— Brad Blanton

Number one, we have to talk about mental illnesses. Number two, you can actually address things from a purer and honest direct…

— Mariel Hemingway