Illness Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.

I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.

An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation

I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at.

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

victimnoun ˈvik-təm 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.

The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that "yourself" - (g swiss)

Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.

We all die. Not all of us live.

I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.

Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.

I have this one little life to live with, it's not the plan I had in mind but I can accept its the calling of my soul. The irony in gaining freedom through the heartbreak of stillness.

She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.

I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.

I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.

The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me.

Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI

This story is not about avoiding death, but living life.

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

What if...the doctors couldn't find anything wrong? What if I was over-exaggerating the pain, weakness, and weird sensations?

Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

We've eaten, but he looks hungry, and experience tells me that crazy takes a lot of calories to sustain.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom.

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.

I have a mental illness, but that doesn't stop me from being mentally capable.

It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

I will be stronger than my sadness.

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.