When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up. — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so. — Clifford Whittingham Beers Copy Share Image
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care… — Judy LaMarsh Copy Share Image
There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness -… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I don't believe anybody has a right to own any kind of a firearm. I believe in order to obtain a permit… — John Silber Copy Share Image
“When people create stigmas and make judgments, they do so without having any understanding of the issue; in fact, many of these… — Carol Franklin Copy Share Image
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures,… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
“So about an hour later we are in the taxi shooting along empty country roads towards town. The April light is clear… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain. — Tan Twan Eng Copy Share Image
Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress. — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
There is no cure for the onset of emotions, so do not allow them to make you sick — Erik Piorkowski Copy Share Image
“Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image