Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything…

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say,…

— Anonymous

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter…

— George Steiner

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead…

— Dahlia Lithwick

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

— Joan Didion

Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or…

— Richard Bentall

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at…

— Martin Seligman

The opposite of nature is impossible.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other…

— Wendell Berry

Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

— Gabor Mate

“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized…

— Lois Lowry

I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money.…

— Nia Long

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

— Charles R. Swindoll

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

— Marcel Proust

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

— Susan Griffin