Illness Quotes

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes.

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.

Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

Literature + Illness = Illness

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

I have come to realize that an early symptom of approaching mental illness is the belief that one's work is terribly important. If you consider your work very important you should take a day off.

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.