Illness Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Illness
Illness Quotes & Sayings
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I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Integration is the key mechanism beneath both the absence of illness and the presence of well-being.
— Anonymous
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
The inability to play is a sign of mental illness.
— Hara Estroff Marano
Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.
— Thea Bowman
A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement.
— Abhijit Naskar
Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away
— Katrina Kenison
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
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
— Susan Sontag
We all have problems, but let's not kid ourselves: it's how we deal with them that makes the difference.
— Jonathan Harnisch
The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it," I offered tentatively. "It was very convincing.
— Joss Sheldon
People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
— Abhijit Naskar
We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
— Jacki Weaver
Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.
— Eraldo Banovac
It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.
— Ellyn Bache
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
— Nancy Astor
I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.
— Patty Duke
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
— Stefan Molyneux
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.
— Pearl S. Buck
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
— Marsha M. Linehan
As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.
— John Corey Whaley
Each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.
— Storm Jameson
Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.
— John Corey Whaley
The Spoon Theory was created by a friend of mine, Christine Miserandino, to explain the limits you have when you live with chronic illness.
— Jenny Lawson
Doubt ... is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
— Gustave Flaubert
I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.
— Emily Andrews
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
— Dennis Potter
I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.
— Paula McLain
The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.
— Raquel Cepeda
Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
— M. Scott Peck
Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn't make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can't be fixed.
— Ken Wheaton
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
— Annette Funicello
In my head maybe it was a test of love, because there are things about illness which I find revolting.
— Jackie Kay
The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
— Kangana Ranaut
Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed.
— Charles Lambert
It's great to be young and insane.
— Michael Keaton
He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.
— Thomas Harris
All of us are crazy in one or another way.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
— Pablo Picasso
People get really irritated by mental illness.
— Maria Bamford
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
— Irving Stone
Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.
— John E. Sarno
There is no greater illness than discouragement!
— Yisroel Salanter
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.
— Michael Pollan
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
Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions! — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions! — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
— Terence McKenna
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
— Saint Augustine
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
A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
— Robert Todd Carroll
Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it's incurable. I've just learned to live with it.
— Sandra Brown
God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
— Shannon L. Alder
Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.
— Mark Hyman, M.D.
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I'm tired of dealing with crazies. When did it become my job to manage your mental illness?
— Joan Rivers
Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention
— Jessica-Lynn Barbour
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death
— Walter Willett
I should have danced more when I had no fear of falling.
— Kim Cormack
Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.
— Thomas Harris
Schizophrenia. Always a bitch.
— Allan Dare Pearce
The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
— Allen Ginsberg
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
— Candace Pert
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.
— Shakti Gawain
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
— Joseph Stalin
When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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
It means that the things that make us human often make us ill.
— Jonathan Rosen
I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness
— Aya Kito
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
— W.C. Fields
The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.
— Colin Wilson
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
— Henny Youngman
Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.
— Cate Blanchett
I was just sort of moving through time.
— Patty Duke