If you're prematurely born or if you have things happening when you're like a baby being born. If you have to learn… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person. — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well,… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to… — Marcia Wallace Copy Share Image
That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
We've all got people who have experienced mental illness, and my mum was a community nurse for a while. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
