When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It… — Sean Moran Copy Share Image
There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
“Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal,” said Allen Frances.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
If you want to know the value of vaccines, just spend some time in a clinic in Africa. The faces of the… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
“Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social… — Arianne Cohen Copy Share Image
True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The more and more I spoke about it, the more I found out how many people deal with it, the more I… — Mardy Fish Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that… — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty,… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“It is illness that makes us recognize that we do not live in isolation but are chained to a being from a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public… — Elyn Saks 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
A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious… — Pamela Sue Martin Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk. — Nino Schurter Copy Share Image
You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
Whether you are aware of it or not, if you eat right then you are giving yourself the best chance of defending… — Chris Hoy Copy Share Image
“His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was dieased” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body. — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
“But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe… — Ryünosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
