Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope. — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Grief is one illness that defies all remedies; it must ever run its course.” — brandy purdy Copy Share Image
a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It's just health. They call it mental health, but your brain is part of your body. It's an injury. You just can't… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
During her illness we received bags and bags of anything you can imagine, from get well cards to origami from Japan to… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women.… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the… — Toh Chin Chye Copy Share Image
Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
“They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve to think otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image