Illness Quotes · Page 3

All governments could do more on mental health.

— Luciana Berger

“Good sleep is vital to good mental health.”

— Steven Magee

Tis a mad world, my masters.

— John Taylor

Music makes illness retreat.

— Asha Bhosle

We spend too much time hiding illness.

— Roger Ebert

People get really irritated by mental illness.

— Maria Bamford

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

— Luis Bunuel

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

— Stephen King

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress

— Marianne Williamson

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

— Jane Roberts

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

— Seneca the Younger

I grew up in a small town, and mental illness wasn't something anyone talked about.

— Rachel Hollis

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

— Judith Guest

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

— Anton Chekhov

The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.

— Olly Alexander

“The panic was there, staring me down in the face, all the time, like I had a hoodie on backwards and I…

— Anne Clendening

Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major…

— Tim Ryan

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness…

— Mark Rothko

The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the…

— Pete Earley

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my…

— Deb Caletti

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

I get Tweets every day from people telling me that 'Hey, I'm going to overcome my injury or my illness. Cancer. Different…

— Adrian Peterson

There is nothing worse that you can do to a human being in America today than give them a mental illness kind…

— Peter Breggin

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes,…

— Leo Buscaglia

Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness…

— Marilyn Ferguson

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a…

— Walter Kirn

This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to…

— Joan Didion

Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to…

— Anonymous

Sometimes I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway.…

— Anonymous

Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the…

— Winona LaDuke

“But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

I talked to over two hundred patients and family members about their experiences with aging, serious illnesses, and the big unfixables. But…

— Atul Gawande

“One of my biggest problems in dealing with the breakdown of my body is that I keep looking in the wrong direction.…

— Marva J. Dawn

“Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can…

— Norman Cousins

Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political…

— Margaret M. Lock

The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more…

— E. Fuller Torrey

Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of…

— John A. Stormer