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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him.
"So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back. — James Patterson
"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
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
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
When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
— Jack Osbourne