Illness Quotes · Page 14

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

— Hippocrates

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

— Uma Thurman

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

— Iris Murdoch

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

— Sandra Cisneros

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

— Jane Pauley

“The Gautama Buddha instructs me to walk away from illness. But he wasn't attached to a drip.”

— Derek Jarman

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

— Tipper Gore

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

— Ashley Montagu

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

— Matt Haig

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

— David Satcher

“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her…

— Jane Austen

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know…

— Marian Keyes

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

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It…

— Sean Moran

“Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal,” said Allen Frances.”

— Jon Ronson

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not…

— David Thewlis

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

I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care…

— Judy LaMarsh

Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be…

— Jed Diamond

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation…

— Kate Millett

There is a very close connection between being a doctor and a politician. The doctor tries to prevent illness, then tries to…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of…

— Carl Honore

We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his…

— Clara Jeffery

At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition."…

— Ken Dornstein

I talked to over two hundred patients and family members about their experiences with aging, serious illnesses, and the big unfixables. But…

— Atul Gawande

“Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can…

— Norman Cousins

“One of my biggest problems in dealing with the breakdown of my body is that I keep looking in the wrong direction.…

— Marva J. Dawn

Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political…

— Margaret M. Lock

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see…

— John Green

Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the…

— Winona LaDuke

“They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve to think otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for…

— Oliver Bowden

“The philosopher treats a question ; like an illness .”

— Wittgenstein

“It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.”

— Jonathan Rosen

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

— John Travolta

People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses

— Vietnamese Proverb

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

— Marsha M. Linehan

“He looked as if he he subsisted exclusively on carbohydrates and ill feeling.”

— John Lanchester

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

— Albert Camus