Illness Quotes

“Suicidal thought is a symptom of illness.”

— Sue Klebold

“The rise of Autism coincides with my life.”

— Steven Magee

I have a plan-to go mad.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

— Marshall McLuhan

Spirit is impervious to illness.

— Marianne Williamson

To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.

— Caroline Myss

Mental illness affects everyone.

— Mauro Ranallo

civilization is a transient sickness.

— Robinson Jeffers

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

— Mark Russell

“Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.”

— Steven Magee

“M.E. isn't just 'exercise phobia': it is a physical illness.”

— Tanya Marlow

But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?

— Anonymous

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

— Gilda Radner

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

— Gene Tierney

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

— Natalia Ginzburg

“Feelings are something you have; not something you are.”

— Shannon L. Alder

If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I…

— Nick Dipaolo

If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.

— Shakti Gawain

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

— Marya Hornbacher

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

— Roger Ebert

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

— Jack Osbourne

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

— Anonymous

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I…

— Tom Shadyac

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather…

— Tom Ford

The food you eat is among the most significant factors affecting your genes and pushing them toward cancer by causing mutation or…

— Dharma Singh Khalsa

“Five minutes ago escapes him as he chases 1934, unaware of the present beauty out the window, the banks of windswept snow—…

— Anthony Walton

There was not an episode [on Perception] that didn't deal with some form of mental illness, either my own, or I would…

— Eric McCormack

The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really…

— Marco Rubio

“[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of…

— Anonymous

When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975…

— Armistead Maupin

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming…

— Mehmet Oz

It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would…

— Matt Haig

“Grigorenko was deprived of his rank, his pension and his Party membership and confined for fifteen months, eight of them in psychushka…

— George Bailey

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.…

— Fran Lebowitz

“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself.…

— Carrie Fisher

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us…

— Abraham Maslow

“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room,…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

For years now, I've been talking about the rise of the extreme right in the U.S. Since 9/11, white nationalists have killed…

— Christian Picciolini

“Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all.…

— Lorrie Moore

“no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his…

— Leo Tolstoy