Illness Quotes · Page 10

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

— Charles Simmons

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

— Vladimir Lenin

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

— Clifford Whittingham Beers

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

— William J. Clinton

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

— Mary Jane Ward

“Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.”

— Peter Boghossian

There is no cure for the onset of emotions, so do not allow them to make you sick

— Erik Piorkowski

I think more people should be open to talking about mental health issues. Instead of holding in so much.

— Brittney Griner

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was…

— Melvyn Bragg

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be…

— Annie Lennox

To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an…

— Theodor Adorno

In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make…

— Chris Rea

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't…

— Tammy Baldwin

Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off…

— Rosalynn Carter

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for…

— Thomas R. Insel

Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say,…

— Maya Angelou

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few…

— Angela Davis

It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians,…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

I know men and women can banish worry, fear and various kinds of illnesses, and can transform their lives by changing their…

— Dale Carnegie

I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never…

— Lee Atwater

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We…

— Adam Hamilton

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the…

— Michael Specter

the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's…

— Peter Moskos

Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know…

— Ori Hofmekler

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.…

— David Foster Wallace

I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its…

— Venus Williams

Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch…

— Anthony de Mello

We think that life is about get the girl, get the guy, get the car, get the job, get the house, get…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant…

— Shannon L. Alder

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

— Kris Carr

Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.

— Tan Twan Eng

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

— Anonymous

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

— Linda Hamilton

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help

— Anonymous

Mental illness and depression are the reason why I no longer have a father.

— Caroline Calloway

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

— John Fowles