Illness Quotes

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

Health is just not valued until illness comes.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.

Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.

Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.

...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.

That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life.

Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cash register!"

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.