The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way. — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we… — Tom Bosley Copy Share Image
Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in… — Samantha Abeel Copy Share Image
With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am wearing… — whoopi goldberg Copy Share Image
“People are going to come into your life, and God is going to use them to help you. To them you’re insignificant… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We think that life is about get the girl, get the guy, get the car, get the job, get the house, get… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I continued blogging, but between illness and deadlines, did not manage to blog nearly as much as last year. I'm hoping to… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side. — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. — John Astin Copy Share Image
In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than anything else. So it's important… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
Americans are blessed with a can-do spirit - we don't give up, even in the face of a daunting challenge like a… — Alex Azar Copy Share Image
![“[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.” quote by Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c5/sam-harris-457_atheism_i-t-is-difficult-to-imagine-a-set-of-bel_835263.jpg)
![“Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.” quote by John Desmond Bernal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/john-desmond-bernal-14871_devotion_her-rosalind-franklin-devotion-to-resear_1532826.png)
![“This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fa/david-foster-wallace-161_about-yourself_this-story-the-depressed-person-was-the_2572995.jpg)
![“Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.” quote by Ruby Wax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/715/ruby-wax-18576_depression_depressions-are-very-cyclical-they-happe_616519.jpg)
