People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
It's so important that we figure out a way of moving beyond the stigma that still exists around treatment for mental health. — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient's illness. How would I deal with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“The process of reforming the mental health system never includes the complaints that families and caregivers have regarding a need for increased… — Tamara Hill, MS Copy Share Image
How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as… — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
“Dream: I look for Lama Lodrö Kagyu teacher friend hearing he's ill & I'm ill, too - I enter his room and… — Marc Olmsted Copy Share Image
“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Nick shook his head. “It amazes me that there’s still such a huge stigma about mental illness here.” “ ‘Stigma’ implies that something… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year… — Joseph L. Bast Copy Share Image
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Mental health awareness means ending the stigma of mental illness by sharing the complexities of our stories and fighting to make care… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth… — David Agus Copy Share Image
It's in poor taste to question anyone's illness diagnosed through specific testing by their doctor. — Camille Grammer Copy Share Image
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“Maybe all illness results from a failure of communication between mind and body. It is certainly true of such quick disease as… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so hard to define. It's not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person… — Stephanie Labbe Copy Share Image
“God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it. — Mauro Ranallo Copy Share Image
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that… — Patsy Cline Copy Share Image
It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness. — Claire Wineland Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well,… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image