Top 100 Quotes About Illness
#1. Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
Thomas Szasz
#2. The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
Patrick W. Corrigan
#3. Life has its share of joys and laughter - but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard - but God is good, and heaven is real!
Billy Graham
#4. Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#5. The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Fidel Castro
#7. I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
Carrie Fisher
#8. It's hard to accept that depression is an illness, that moping around from day to day with no will for so many years is not my fault.
Francisco X Stork
#9. Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.
Jean M. Auel
#10. How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.
Kathryn Harrison
#11. My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
Henny Youngman
#13. People were entrapped not only by illness and unjust social conditions, but by the sorrows and passions they themselves created in their own hearts and minds.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#14. I just effectively fight the illness, regardless if it's cancer or religion.
Adam Darski
#15. A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick ... and it's profitable.
Heather Donahue
#16. But I wondered why they had waited for Eve's illness to make themselves available for companionship.
Garth Stein
#17. The power of the dark side is an illness no true Sith would wish to be cured of.
James Luceno
#18. Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away
Katrina Kenison
#19. Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.
Anton Du Beke
#20. Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
Andrew Solomon
#21. Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.
E. O. Wilson
#22. Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.
Thomas Carper
#23. When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.
Josh Lanyon
#24. Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness.
Joseph Stefano
#25. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
#26. 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
#27. Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
Susanna Kaysen
#28. I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
Marcia Wallace
#29. Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their cole.
J.R. Ward
#30. He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
Cory Doctorow
#31. I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.
Clive Culverhouse
#32. We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
Michael Crichton
#33. Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
Marcia Angell
#34. 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.
Tammy Baldwin
#35. Working at the pharmacy, you get the impression that there are no healthy people in the world. The normal condition is not health but illness.
Boris Fishman
#36. Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. For this reason, never allow an expert's 'opinion' to limit you in any way, whether it is with your intellect, accomplishments or illness and disease
Gary Hopkins
#37. Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
Elyn R. Saks
#38. It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.
Maya Forbes
#39. Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
Albert Camus
#40. Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.
Melvyn Bragg
#41. The brain is just another organ, vulnerable to illness and capable of recovery.
Sheila Hamilton
#42. Working models can be altered in negative directions as well by family changes such as divorce or a parent's illness,
Douglas Davies
#43. If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.
Denis Johnson
#44. Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#45. It's true. Goodfellow is monogamous. he's become a freak. A pervert. Depravity on the cloven hoof."
"Or his balls fell off," suggested another puck who came to the bar. "Or his dick. Anyone who would hang out with Bacchus is bound to get a catastrophic genital rotting illness at some point.
Rob Thurman
#46. 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
#47. ...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.
Roland Merullo
#48. Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#49. My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
W.C. Fields
#51. Unconscious motivating forces play a central role in shaping our behavior, but they are also the primary cause of mental illness.
Christian Jarrett
#52. The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
Jane Roberts
#53. The worst thing about this illness isn't the things it makes me believe, or what it makes me do. It's not the control that it has over me, or even the control it's allowed other people to take.
Worse than all of that is how I have become selfish.
Nathan Filer
#54. No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
Gail Sheehy
#55. There is some evidence that chronic severe depression causes some atrophy or shrinkage in the hippocampus. Depressive illness could therefore be seen as a very subtle form of degeneration in some nerve cells.
Stefan Cembrowicz
#56. You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.
Wanda Sykes
#57. Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.
Paul C. Nagel
#58. Mental illness doesn't listen to reason. It doesn't even have a language of love. It only knows despair. You cannot blame yourself. You can't allow temporary problems from your past to become lifelong regrets.
Kathryn Perez
#59. I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
Victor LaValle
#60. Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.
Eric McCormack
#61. While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
Yayoi Kusama
#62. And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter - just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial?
Thomas Mann
#63. I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.
Robert Jeffress
#64. 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
#65. 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.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#66. For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet ... and hoped that they would go away.
Richard J. Codey
#67. Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth
as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.
Frank Loesser
#68. Mental illness, depression, was indeed an illness with a physiological basis. It wasn't a sign of failure. I wasn't a failure.
Rachel Reiland
#69. In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
Gail Sheehy
#70. If you ask, flowers and plants will tell you many stories. God can talk through them, and if you ask them, they will raise their hands if they know they can help you with an illness.
Mabel Katz
#71. Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.
Daisaku Ikeda
#72. 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
#73. Because I teach and write about depression and bipolar illness, I am often asked what is the most important factor in treating bipolar disorder. My answer is competence. Empathy is important, but competence is essential.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#74. I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same again
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#75. The Stoics say, " Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
#76. You realize how selfish you were to wish that your wife survived you. It was your selfishness that made you deny that your wife had a serious illness.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#77. I do not remember much of that illness, except that I woke to find my head in Emile's lap. She looked into my eyes.
'You are a fool,' she said. It was the nicest thing she'd said to me in two years.
Christian Cameron
#78. My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.
Jane Austen
#79. When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.
Muriel Barbery
#80. 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?
Tipper Gore
#81. For the most part, mental illness is caused by an absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth. It
M. Scott Peck
#82. Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.
Peter McWilliams
#83. Fat cells have memories. They want to go back to their old size. But new muscles have memories too and, once you have created muscles, they work hard to hold your new shape.
You are always on a diet. The only question is, a diet for what? Health or obesity? Longevity or illness?
Celso Cukierkorn
#84. Life in itself is a big classroom - so learn all the chapters of life well. This chapter of illness is but only one chapter. Learn whatever it has come to teach you and move on in life.
Sanchita Pandey
#85. 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.
#86. We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
Douglas Coupland
#87. I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
Clara Hughes
#88. When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
Jack Osbourne
#89. The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved
Princess Diana
#90. If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.
The Content of the Psychoses
C. G. Jung
#91. Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
Hampton Sides
#92. Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a 'healing' cures our illness or lifts our burden. But sometimes we are 'healed' by being given strength or understanding or patience to bear the burdens placed upon us.
Dallin H. Oaks
#93. I can't remember missing a practice because of illness.
Don Shula
#94. People get really irritated by mental illness.
Maria Bamford
#95. Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.
Chuck Palahniuk
#96. If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.
Robin Sharma
#97. I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#98. Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind.
They put the pain there to let you know it hurts.
David Holmes
#99. I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
Sally Graham
