Children Quote by Samuel Beckett

“After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more…

— Diane Setterfield

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…

— Susan Sontag

Once upon a time, there was a boy who didn't like himself very much. It was not his fault. He was born with cerebral…

— Tom Junod

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

— Carl Jung

“Our family was starting. We kept on moving with our young lives, shortly afterward and took Ben Young with us everywhere. But pretty soon…

— Neil Young

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

— Ovid

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

— Antonio Gramsci

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself…

— Thomas Sydenham

Better a good venereal disease than a moribund peace and quiet

— Henry Miller

“Ah, sadly, Lieutenant, since we are only discussing a hypothetical situation, I can’t answer that. But someone with this level of need for stability…

— J.T. Ellison

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

— Christian Nestell Bovee