Illness Quotes · Page 44

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the…

— Rosa DeLauro

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

— Anonymous

It is impossible to insure that there is a zero percent chance of any kind of foodborne illness anytime anyone eats anywhere.

— Steve Ells

The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free…

— Narendra Modi

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed…

— Brian Lindstrom

You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

— Steven Wright

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional.…

— Barbara

Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a…

— Eloisa James

People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart…

— Francis Collins

If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you've never juiced vegetables, start. If you've never taken vitamin C to…

— Andrew Saul

That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a…

— Judy Parfitt

“I don't want to hide. I don't want to be alone. I don't want to wander off into the desert in shame…

— Anne Clendening

The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is…

— Rob Bell

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a…

— Nelson Mandela

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on…

— Louise Erdrich

Autism is a complicated illness, and children with a variety of treatments and non-treatments show improvement over time, which is all to…

— Harvey V. Fineberg

I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have…

— Yochai Benkler

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the…

— Murray Rothbard

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

— Yayoi Kusama

“But I had already fallen. Fallen into this deep, dark hole. I was trapped. Trapped in this nightmare.”

— Sarah Todd Hammer

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

— Isabel Allende

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

— John Steinbeck

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

— Elyn Saks

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is…

— Fran Drescher

A lot of people are ashamed to talk about mental illness. To me, it's power to give people that.

— Ahmad Balshe

Mental illness and eating disorders can affect anyone - every age, race, and gender - and I'm so proud to be a…

— Matthew Koma

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness…

— Pope Francis

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

— Sylvia Plath

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

— M. Scott Peck

Mental health is not a novelty; it's part of who we are and we need to treat it as if it were…

— Melissa Leong

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

— Gail Porter

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom…

— Earl Warren

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a…

— Emma Stone

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so…

— Sholem Asch

With ulcerative colitis, if you remove the large intestine you remove the illness. But it's not a simple operation.

— Darren Fletcher

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not…

— Abraham Verghese