Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical"…

— Susan Sontag

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild…

— Jim Morrison

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

— Alice B. Toklas

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

— Peter J. Carroll

A delusion of grandeur is when a man loses touch with reality, what do you call it when a nation loses touch with reality?

— Nicholas Zounis

I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones.…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

— Ovid

Doubtis an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

— Gustave Flaubert

“The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for…

— Tom Robbins

“Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same…

— Nathan Filer

“Looking at ourselves through the eyes of those living in places where human tragedy is still embedded in complex religious and cultural narratives, we…

— Ethan Watters