Illness Quotes

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

Our illness is often our healing.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

I'll be the in to your sane.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind