The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and… — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
“I lead a double life. I'm John Wayne Gacy. I present myself in potentially awkward social situations as a laughing, colorful clown… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Our fears are those that cause cancer and those fears operate in the regions that the drugs we use to hide our… — Steven Machat Copy Share Image
