The worst illness is to live life that others want you to…

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the…

— Lance Armstrong

“Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

— David Feherty

“I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and…

— Edie Littlefield Sundby

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take…

— Anonymous

Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.…

— Demi Lovato

Literature + Illness = Illness

— Roberto Bolano

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

— Andy Behrman

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

“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