His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and… — Heather Donahue Copy Share Image
In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away” — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Choose to look at illness and death in positive ways rather than negatively will help to give your life here on the… — Phylameana Lila Desy Copy Share Image
“At six months, 36 percent of patients reported new-onset fatigue, 20 percent reported widespread pain, and 45 percent reported neurocognitive difficulties.” — Pamela Weintraub Copy Share Image
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to… — Edie Littlefield Sundby Copy Share Image
That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
“I needed a time machine. I needed to run around the past and gather up all the old, unbroken parts of me… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
There are certain jokes that indicate how mainstream a comic is. If you're talking about how the side effects of drugs that… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
“Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social… — Arianne Cohen Copy Share Image
Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My alcoholism was an illness. It was in my DNA, my genes. Both my parents were addicts and I have an addictive… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own… — Lysette Anthony Copy Share Image
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad,… — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than anything else. So it's important… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image