Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might… — Clifford Whittingham Beers
To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect… — Clifford Whittingham Beers
To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see… — Clifford Whittingham Beers
As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning… — Mark Vonnegut
Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are. — Mark Vonnegut
Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay. — Mark Vonnegut
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity. — John Astin
My main memories of my father are of his illness. — Daniel Day-Lewis
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. — Alastair Campbell
We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number… — Michael C. Burgess
Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk… — Lisa Gardner
Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not… — Peter Dickens
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and pleasure, but also… — Anthony Giddens
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being.… — Mildred Blaxter
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built… — Oliver Sacks
To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to… — Theodor Adorno
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. — Marya Hornbacher
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. — Jack Kornfield
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… — John Desmond Bernal
Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think. — Tom Ford
People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid… — Francis Collins
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman
Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might… — Mary Jane Ward
It wasn’t government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn’t government that gave us the yearly and… — Paul Waldman
... I want the world to know that people like me who have returned from the half-world of mental oblivion are not forever contaminated. We… — Jimmy Piersall

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