Illness Quotes

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. (Rita Mae Brown)
Idleness and laziness not only breed ignorance, but they are also the cause of illness. View quote
Avicenna
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. View quote
Karl Kraus
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. View quote
Marcel Proust
As I have said before, 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. View quote
Fidel Castro
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude? View quote
Paulo Coelho
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. View quote
Edith Wharton
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. View quote
Richard Carlson
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. (Thomas Mann)
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness. View quote
Jack Osbourne
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. View quote
Sigmund Freud
There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy. View quote
Harlan Coben
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. View quote
Kate Millett
Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way. View quote
Christopher McDougall
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. View quote
John Wanamaker
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle. View quote
Mary Wesley
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. View quote
Carrie Fisher
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. (John Forbes Nash)
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources - spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. View quote
Norman Cousins
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
Factions are a sign of illness in a party. View quote
Ernest Mandel
Thank Heaven! the crisis - The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last - And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe