Top 100 Health Illness Quotes
#1. You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.
Mehmet Oz
#2. That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.
Barbara Lieberman
#3. Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#4. Being the people we are, and feeling the way that we do, getting excited about going somewhere new can be terrifying. Of course it is, I get it! But if you don't travel, you'll regret it. Your soul will forever be empty.
S.R. Crawford
#5. Healing must always seek to give voice to suffering, and the greater the range of words and meanings we have at our disposal, the clearer the voice becomes.
Iona Heath in BMJ 2000;320:125 ( 8 January) Review of the book Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David Morris
Iona Heath
#6. There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end of you for most people there can't afford medical care.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#7. The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
Stefan Molyneux
#8. But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.
R. YS Perez
#9. There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
Shannon L. Alder
#10. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.
Norah Vincent
#11. What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.
Rufi Thorpe
#12. It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease instead of curing it.
Gary Hopkins
#13. Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.
Sol Luckman
#14. We spend too much time hiding illness.
Roger Ebert
#15. Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals ... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.
James Q. Wilson
#16. 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.
Hippocrates
#17. -Speaking about Vaccinations -
If you accept the truth after the fact, the pain will last a life time.
Richard Diaz
#18. I feel like I'm stuck inside my body. Everyone's moved forward, but I've been stuck in the same place. Since I've come into all this awareness lately, the hardest part has been remembering who I used to be, the dreams that died, the years I've lost.
Sidney Halston
#19. 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.
Elyn R. Saks
#20. We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.
Tamara Hill
#21. I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
Chris Toumazou
#22. DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.
Deborah Bray Haddock
#23. The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.
Christiane Northrup
#24. Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#25. Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.
Nathan Filer
#26. Hiding white lies only causes
anxiety and low self- esteem.
Melissa Mae Palmer
(on living with a mysterious illness and not telling a soul)
Melissa Mae Palmer
#27. Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
Jean Houston
#28. I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.
Clive Culverhouse
#30. I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
Olivia Newton-John
#32. I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.
Martin Seligman
#33. People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.
Francis Collins
#34. The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
#35. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life. I
Oscar Wilde
#36. You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.
R. YS Perez
#37. We don't go in for that psychodynamic stuff around here. Those guys will talk you to death, clean out your bank account while they are doing it, and then invite you to come back and express your innermost feelings about being broke.
Forrest Carr
#38. This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.
Sidney Jourard
#39. A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement.
Abhijit Naskar
#40. It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I'd look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.
Sabrina Chapadjiev
#41. You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever.
Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!
Carrie Fisher
#42. It also reflects a tendency in our society to focus on negatives. Doctors, for instance, study illness, not health. Business leaders analyse failure, not success. Economists study cost, not value. Philosophers mostly debate original sin, not original blessing.
Robert Holden
#44. My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#45. It is proven that cars can affect your health.
Steven Magee
#46. We all have problems, but let's not kid ourselves: it's how we deal with them that makes the difference.
Jonathan Harnisch
#47. They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
Nathaniel Lee
#48. Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.
Theresa Larsen
#49. This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
Ruby Wax
#51. I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.
Jello Biafra
#52. The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse.
Tiffany Madison
#53. Health, not illness, is our natural state. It's usually just a matter of finding it tucked beneath the layers of imbalance that have accumulated over time.
Suhas G. Kshirsagar
#55. Maybe ... a person can experience an illness as a kind of health. Maybe not every disease is a deficit, a taking away. Maybe what's happening to her is an opening, a window, a migration.
Anthony Doerr
#56. He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#57. Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.
Karl A. Menninger
#58. 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.
Bernard Jensen
#59. I think that basically we are all helping people. All the time. Every time any of us speaks openly about mental health, we are helping normalize an illness that is still handled with protective goggles and safety gloves.
Matt Haig
#60. Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
Edvard Munch
#61. People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
Abhijit Naskar
#62. Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells ...
Shannon Celebi
#63. A chronic invalid has but one thought about his identity: He doesn't want to be a sick man. The rest of the discussion seems frivolous to him-an immense privilege of the healthy. Still, I'm a novelist, and so I pursue it.
Nancy Horan
#64. In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.
Stana Katic
#65. Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.
Teresa Margaret Of The Sacred Heart
#66. The medication given during mental-ill health makes you rather weaker in body, in soul and in spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
Mira Bartok
#69. The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.
Michel De Certeau
#70. My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
Michel Templet
#71. It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
Ruby Wax
#72. Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#74. People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.
Teresa Toten
#75. Health is just not valued until illness comes.
Thomas Fuller
#76. There's nothing worse than bottling something up inside and letting it eat at you. It's like being shot, and leaving the bullet inside our bodies. The wound would never heal. Instead, we need to let it out.
S.R. Crawford
#77. The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.
Vironika Tugaleva
#78. This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.
David T. Dellinger
#79. 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.
Patrick W. Corrigan
#80. The word "depressed" is spoken phonetically as "deep rest". We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound, and very misunderstood, state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity.
Jeff Foster
#81. As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.
Edgar Saltus
#82. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.
Norah Vincent
#83. The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
Glenn Close
#84. But Hey, Guess What
Crazy means I'm not liable
for my actions. So screw it,
I'll go home, propped up on
Prozac against distractions
Ellen Hopkins
#85. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Steven Kassels
#87. Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.
Steven Magee
#88. This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.
R. YS Perez
#89. The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.
William Styron
#90. 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.
Ann Radcliffe
#91. I have traversed many kinds of health, and keep traversing them ... and as for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it? Only great pain is the liberator of the spirit.
Oliver Sacks
#92. Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
David Blunkett
#93. He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.
Kurt Vonnegut
#94. Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.
Michael Lewis
#95. Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?
Alex Bosworth
#96. Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.
Donna Goddard
#97. The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
Holbrook Jackson
#98. Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.
John E. Sarno
#99. There will be the IV poles, the divorce papers, the sound of dirt hitting a casket. We will have moments where we can't catch our breath and all the world seems wrong, and we can't help but wonder if He even cares.
Angie Smith
#100. What if you had such severe schizophrenia that your life was just one hallucination after another? And what if people kept trying to drag you back out of those hallucinations, to prove that you weren't living in reality and that reality was nothing more than a psych hospital? Would you go?
Jonathan Harnisch
