Illness Quotes · Page 22

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness

— Patty Duke

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

— Thomas Szasz

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

— William Golding

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

— Susan Faludi

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

— Marcel Proust

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

— Edvard Munch

“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

— Tom Shadyac

[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

Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

— Deepak Chopra

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

— William Shatner

Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to…

— Nnedi Okorafor

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of…

— Kate Cann

“She sounded angry. That was the way she'd been as long as he'd known her. If she became ill, it irritated her.…

— Richard Matheson

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness…

— Ann Druyan

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore…

— Thabo Mbeki

I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing…

— Stephenie Meyer

Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,…

— Lauren Slater

God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will…

— Rajneesh

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's…

— Terry Pratchett

My wife, like many women, actually LIKES wrapping things. If she gives you a gift that requires batteries, she wraps the batteries…

— Dave Barry

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as…

— Sigmund Freud

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from…

— Leigh Newman

“Did he still want it? Did he still want to live? Yes, yes, oh, God, yes, please. Because, O.K., the thing was—he…

— George Saunders

There's no way, of course, to fully understand what an illness does to someone or what emotional state or physical state it…

— Hayden Panettiere

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve woken up in a cold sweat thinking I’m being chased by a grunting, disfigured…

— Anne Clendening

“Dear Pen Pal, I know it’s been a few years since I last wrote you. I hope you’re still there. I’m not…

— Anonymous

Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual,…

— Alexej von Jawlensky

I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.

— Anne Sexton

Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.

— Zoe Quinn

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.

— Charles Manson

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mental health is a continuum, and people may fall anywhere on the spectrum.

— Amy Morin

It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.

— Madchen Amick

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.

— Harriet Lerner

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

— Bernadette Peters