Illness Quotes · Page 10

“He looked as if he he subsisted exclusively on carbohydrates and ill feeling.”

— John Lanchester

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

— Marsha M. Linehan

“It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.”

— Jonathan Rosen

“The philosopher treats a question ; like an illness .”

— Wittgenstein

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

— Ashley Montagu

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

— Sandra Cisneros

“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.”

— Derek Jarman

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

— Jane Pauley

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

— R. D. Laing

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

— Kylie Minogue

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

— Margaret Trudeau

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things…

— Anonymous

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support…

— Patti Davis

“Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to…

— Joel Osteen

If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many…

— David Jeremiah

I live in Venice Beach so I see this all day, every day. Some people just ignore people with mental illness, pretend…

— Lori Petty

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away,…

— Stephen Levine

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we…

— Alexander Lowen

There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by…

— Shannon Purser

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception.…

— Sam Harris

I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar…

— Eric Millegan

Nurse' couldn't be construed as laughing at the characters. You can't do something about mental illness without being genuine about the characters.…

— Paul Whitehouse

There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use…

— Mauro Ranallo

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept…

— Paul Auster

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind-…

— Tim Dorsey

“It was them and not them, maybe the ones they’d never been. I could almost see those others standing in the garden…

— Lydia Millet

Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and…

— N. T. Wright

“I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and…

— John Green

“A world without prejudice, stigma, and discrimination against those who have or are thought to have mental illness would be a better…

— Mark Vonnegut

“I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

— Tipper Gore

“Alcoholism is the one illness that tells you, you don't have it”

— Paul Campbell

“I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

— Max Beckmann

If you think research is expensive, try disease!

— Mary Lasker

Mental health is a growing problem that touches every corner of the country.

— Neera Tanden

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

— Princess Diana

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

— Thomas F. Wilson