Illness Quotes · Page 37

You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

— Harold H. Bloomfield

“Mental illness do not designate a set path to failure. It’s simply a chemical or hormone imbalance that causes individuals to accept…

— Okisha Jackson

I think, these days when someone talks about their struggles of mental health, we are almost surprised by it. It comes as…

— Emma Corrin

Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause…

— Libba Bray

“Schizophrenia is when the total personalities of your past lives or the memories of invading Spirits enter your body.”

— Raymond Holder

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

— Susan Sontag

There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

— Peter D. Kramer

“I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots…

— David Almond

Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on…

— Anna Quindlen

I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a…

— Anonymous

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the…

— Eric McCormack

Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,…

— Ban Ki-moon

While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter…

— Michael Leunig

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was…

— Sigmund Freud

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and…

— Marcel Proust

He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death…

— Yukio Mishima

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

— John Wilmot

I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

— Jill Stein

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can…

— Karin Slaughter

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

— Norman Mailer

As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease,…

— Spike Milligan

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not…

— Elyn Saks

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

— Bernie Siegel

I think there's such a stigma around mental health, particularly as fighters, we are seen as invincible.

— Megan Anderson

It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was…

— Reggie Fils-Aime

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

— Anonymous

It is impossible to insure that there is a zero percent chance of any kind of foodborne illness anytime anyone eats anywhere.

— Steve Ells

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the…

— Rosa DeLauro

Should I ever again sink into illness, I'm sure I'll remember Eldric. I'll remember he cared for me. I'll remember that someone…

— Franny Billingsley

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and…

— Thomas Mann

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the…

— David Mitchell

We might take it for granted now, but back in the nineties, who was talking about mental health?

— Emma Corrin

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful…

— Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

“Schizophrenia: A psychotic disorderncharacterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations. See also: Nightmare.”

— Holly Schindler

“Generally speaking, psychiatry is concerned with the treatment of neuroses, with patients who are aware of their illness and wish to be…

— Rennie Airth

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

— John Wanamaker