Illness Quotes

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

If only his mind were as easy to fix as his body.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.

When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.

You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

I have a plan-to go mad.

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

Depression is a physical illness.

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

civilization is a transient sickness.

Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a non-issue.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.