Illness Quotes · Page 43

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

“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?”

— Michaela Haze

I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that…

— Tia Mowry

“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

It's not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can't escape this bubble from being…

— Ben Fogle

I want to work with faith-based leaders to address the negative attitudes that are still too often associated with mental illness, attitudes…

— Vivek Murthy

There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so…

— Cris Carter

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an…

— Rebecca Miller

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character…

— Pete Earley

Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way…

— Kathleen Hanna

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people…

— Jean Vanier

The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families…

— Mary Robinson

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

— Lysette Anthony

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

— Richard Avedon

Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

— Henny Youngman

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a…

— W. H. Auden

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that…

— Patsy Cline

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and…

— Matt Haig

“School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.

— Claire Wineland

[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

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

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a…

— Susannah Cahalan

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

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

— Anonymous

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

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

— Susan Sontag

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

“Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them…

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Olly Alexander

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

— Anthony Storr

“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.”

— Benjamin J. Carey

While a therapist is working with an anorexic, it takes months, if not years, to overcome the illness.

— Richard Carpenter

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is…

— Mary Wortley Montagu