“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
“Grief is one illness that defies all remedies; it must ever run its course.” — brandy purdy Copy Share Image
a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Call someone 'a schizophrenic' or 'a borderline' [and it] lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I know a lot about systemic lupus erythematosus because I have it, too. I was diagnosed through the NHS when I first… — Katherine Ryan 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
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
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 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
“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to… — Elyn R. Saks Copy Share Image
Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
I think people forget that when people lose Medicaid coverage, they still show up at the hospital when they have a chronic… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image
I think that, generally, when it's a white male shooting, then it's mental illness is the first thing that they utilize after… — Daayiee Abdullah Copy Share Image
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of… — John A. Stormer Copy Share Image
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Mental health can be nasty but there is light at the end of the tunnel! — Kerry Katona Copy Share Image
“Too many of the mentally ill in our country live under conditions of atrocity. Storytelling” — Ron Powers Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image