Illness Quote by Mary Jane Ward

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

— Susan Griffin

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

— Marcel Proust

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

— Charles R. Swindoll

I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money.…

— Nia Long

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized…

— Lois Lowry

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary…

— Andy Behrman

Literature + Illness = Illness

— Roberto Bolano

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take…

— Anonymous

It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health…

— Mehmet Oz