Illness Quotes

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.

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

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.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

To think too much is a disease.

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

Most illness begins with a negative mind.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

Illness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

A fatal recovery from a promising illness

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

Chronic disease is a food borne illness.

Love is a grave mental illness.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.