Illness Quotes · Page 6

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

— Ernest Mandel

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

— Alan Bennett

We spend too much time hiding illness.

— Roger Ebert

People get really irritated by mental illness.

— Maria Bamford

Tis a mad world, my masters.

— John Taylor

Music makes illness retreat.

— Asha Bhosle

I will find a way out or make one.

— Robert Peary

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.

— Bernadette Peters

When anxiety disrupts functioning, it's psychiatric illness.

— Harriet Lerner

It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.

— Madchen Amick

Without knowing the cause of illness, any treatment must be considered a guess.

— Richard Diaz

Psychiatrist are like mind hookers. Give them 200 dollars and they just screw with your head.

— Christopher Titus

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

— Susan Minot

Many of the underlying factors in poor mental health are societal.

— Luciana Berger

“The supplement industry is the biggest threat to the pharmaceutical industry.”

— Steven Magee

Your pantry is your first line of defense against food-borne illness and things like high blood pressure and cholesterol.

— Joe Bastianich

“His relationship with illness was flirtatious; only a particularly attractive ailment could tempt him into bed.”

— Sam Byers

“You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

— Camille Paglia

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

— Andrew Solomon

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

— Albert Camus

“I believe that today we’re facing a psychological epidemic, one in which people no longer realize it’s okay for things to suck…

— Mark Manson

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too…

— Neal Shusterman

Mental strength is not the same as mental health. Just like someone with diabetes could still be physically strong, someone with depression…

— Amy Morin

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not…

— D. H. Lawrence

For me, Yves Saint Laurent is a hero because he fought his whole life against illness. Maybe the only way to fight…

— Jalil Lespert

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didn’t want to go…

— Rollo Romig

..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could…

— Peter McWilliams

You certainly can't prevent all mental health problems - factors like genetics and traumatic life events certainly play a role. But everyone…

— Amy Morin

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology…

— Donald Kagan

If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if…

— Anthony Storr

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

“We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You have a…

— Whoopi Goldberg

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might…

— Tracy Thompson

I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating…

— Elad Lassry

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

I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call…

— May Sarton

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

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