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It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know? — Moby

Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia. — Zeena Schreck

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. — Sholem Asch

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

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. — Columba Bush

Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness. — Joseph Stefano

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. — Mary Garden

Cancer gets a bad press but, fair do's, it's a truly egalitarian illness, unlike those stuck-up bastards ME and motor neurone. — Ian Pattison

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think. — Anton Chekhov

Let's pretend you are capable of being who I think I need you to be: a love story. — Melissa Broder

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day. — Norah Vincent

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. — Lance Armstrong

It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want. — Jackie Mason

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

A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body's normal response to fear, stress or excitement. — Abhijit Naskar

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen. — Julia Sweeney

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [ ... ] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with. — Tamora Pierce

We all have problems, but let's not kid ourselves: it's how we deal with them that makes the difference. — Jonathan Harnisch

What's more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones? — Forrest Carr

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got. — Shawn Colvin

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it. — Mary Ann Mobley

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. — Sarah Lancashire

Alice's illness had turned her into the center of mass around which the rest of the family moved in anxious orbits, like unstable planets. — Lisa Kleypas

I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable. — Michelle N. Onuorah

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life. — Ellyn Bache

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness? — J.K. Rowling

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

It's true, I suffer a great deal
but do I suffer well? That is the question. — Therese De Lisieux

It's a little bit like what Akari said to his grandmother in Shikoku, during her final illness: 'Please cheer up and die! — Kenzaburo Oe

Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression. — Jasmine Warga

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? — Joseph Conrad

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

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent. — Kenneth Oppel

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. — Amy Tan

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win. — Jasmine Warga

Until you have stood in another woman's stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in. — Shannon L. Alder

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill. — John Darnielle

I
Keep writing.
Not because I want to.
It's a respiratory illness. — Jonathan Heatt

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can't predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws. — Holly Robinson

That's what mountains do, they taunt you, lure you to the freedom of the wilderness, and it is fucking exhilarating. — Shannon Mullen

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

Near the end of the story, at the police station, Murin diagnoses Ordynov's illness as the sad result of "too much book learning, — Robert Mann

The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown. — Rebecca McNutt

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence. — William H. Macy

As for wondering if it's okay to be who you are--that's not a symptom of mental illness. That's a symptom of being a person. — Jeff Garvin

I truly believe that the boredom of illness is parlous to one's health — Tyne O'Connell

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When yo are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a nonissue. — Abraham Hicks

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. — Muhammad Ali

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. — Carolyn Wheat

Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues. — Nina Easton

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary. — Daniel Johns

While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse. — Lee Ann Hoff

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty. — Andy Behrman

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means. — Jenny Downham

That's the only way to cure an illness, right? Diagnose it." She — Barack Obama

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes. — Deb Caletti

Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction. — Michelle Obama

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. — Guy De Maupassant

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up. — Mary Jane Ward

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride? — Alex Bosworth

It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness. — Karen Duffy

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. — Marya Hornbacher

Working models can be altered in negative directions as well by family changes such as divorce or a parent's illness, — Douglas Davies

I just effectively fight the illness, regardless if it's cancer or religion. — Adam Darski

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. — Maya Angelou

There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love. — Alexander McCall Smith

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. — Bernadette Peters

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job. — Nikki Rowe

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

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's great to be young and insane. — Michael Keaton

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

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

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. — W.C. Fields

Miraculously recover or die. That's the extent of our cultural bandwidth for chronic illness. — S. Kelley Harrell

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness. — Terence McKenna

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times. — Steven Magee

They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not. — Neal Shusterman

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him.
"So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back. — James Patterson

Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it's incurable. I've just learned to live with it. — Sandra Brown

I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse. — Robbie Williams

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

The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process. — S. Nassir Ghaemi

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive. — Matt Haig

A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve. — Bebe Moore Campbell

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

If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad! — E.J. Plows

What you feel is infatuation. It's an illness, an obsession. It's anything but love. — Raphael Montes

When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness. — Roni Askey-Doran

But I wondered why they had waited for Eve's illness to make themselves available for companionship. — Garth Stein

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. — Irvin S. Cobb

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice. — Jack Osbourne

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse. — Ruby Wax

For all the normal people who make fun of the mentally ill it's spelled K.A.R.M.A. and it's pronounced your days coming, Bitch! — Stanley Victor Paskavich