Many doctors spend their time looking For the symptoms of illness, Rarely acknowledging that illness is itself a symptom. — Margo Adair Copy Share Image
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach."… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works.… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.” — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's. — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.' — Richard Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
