“Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one… — Zafrullah Chowdhury Copy Share Image
The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude. — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all… — A.P Copy Share Image
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do… — Sun Myung Moon 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
A sick person is Allah's guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless… — Kristiane Backer Copy Share Image
Illness itself can make you angry, enraged, furious, and it made me angry, enraged, and furious. I don't think it brought me… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the… — Leonhard Rauwolf Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also… — Vestal McIntyre Copy Share Image
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“ Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness… — Hanson Copy Share Image
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change. — Shari Arison 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'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
When it comes to a serious illness, the child who has been taught to obey has four times the chance of recovery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing. — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I'm talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I'm not talking about… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
