Illness Quotes · Page 33

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I…

— Robin Hobb

You can only explain America's gun violence problem through guns, because mental illness doesn't automatically lead to violence, and it doesn't lead…

— Chris Murphy

“Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become…

— Eraldo Banovac

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know…

— Jonathan Davis

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to…

— Florence Nightingale

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it…

— Howard Hodgkin

I've struggled more with guys, depression drugs, family and career than I ever have with my illness. I'm not an innocent and…

— Claire Wineland

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

— Rich Lowry

The nature of food processing had changed substantially in America. Much of it owed to corresponding changes in food packaging and the…

— Scott Gottlieb

OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the…

— Eugene Scalia

If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“I was inspired to write (Life Continues) to tell people dealing with MS or any other illness that if opening your eyes,…

— Carmen Ambrosio

To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been…

— Clifford Whittingham Beers

“Psychiatric illnesses were classified into two major groups—organic illnesses and functional illnesses—based on presumed differences in their origin. That classification, which dated…

— Eric Kandel

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding…

— Andy Behrman

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me.…

— John Lydon

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

The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power…

— Lee Atwater

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

— Martin Luther

“Boy, you really break things down, don't you?' Some say it is an illness.' We should all be so ill.”

— Francisco X. Stork

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the…

— Susanna Kaysen

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normalbranch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a…

— Harry Segall Archie Mayo Dr Max Higgins

I am privileged to have people around me who understand mental illnesses and mental health. However, the stigma around it is huge.

— Ananya Birla

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

— John Henry Cox

“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail…the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right…

— Eric Millegan

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

— Anonymous

We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from…

— Bob Costas

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

— Sarah Lancashire

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

— Luciana Berger

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

— Norman Cousins

We've all got people who have experienced mental illness, and my mum was a community nurse for a while.

— Paul Whitehouse

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very…

— Katherine Boo

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins…

— Libba Bray