Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to… — Robert M. Pirsig
Too long, the earth has been a madhouse! — Friedrich Nietzsche
We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful! — Gustave Flaubert
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them… — Jeffrey Eugenides
You're never too old to be crazy. — Michael Caine
Moods should be heard but never danced to. — Hugh Prather
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works… — Marcel Proust
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are… — Unknown Author
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ... — Kay Redfield Jamison
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. — Amy Tan
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives… — Camille Paglia
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and… — Robert Musil
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses. — Elyn Saks
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United… — Elyn Saks
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. — Elyn Saks
Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I've seen young men… — Emma Watson
I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness — Patty Duke
It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice… — Emma Stone
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 pretty important task. — Emma Stone
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by… — James Cagney
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death. — Spike Milligan
As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic… — Marlo Thomas
Heart disease is a food-borne illness. — Caldwell Esselstyn

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