A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Thus the incidence of mental illness correlates closely to income in the US and the UK,” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of… — Krishnananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Now our Earth is swarmed with issues such as life, death, illness, wars, economic crises and many others. It is time that… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual… — Allan Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too.… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image
We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide. — Luke Richardson 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
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems?… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking,… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
“All I ask of all my friends is that they understand this is truly a devastating neurological illness and not just about… — Tracey Browett Copy Share Image
Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“A man like Kappler might become angriest, most detached, even sickest at those times his psychiatrist edges closest to the truths about… — Keith Russell Ablow Copy Share Image
“Underneath your conscious and unconscious beliefs, love continues to flow, willing to extend outward, and express yourself. The ultimate purpose of your… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This… — Oliver Sacks 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
“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
“-Speaking about Vaccinations - "If you accept the truth after the fact, the pain will last a life time.” — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have,… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today.… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't. — Jenifer Lewis Copy Share Image
Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image