Illness Quotes - page 17

[In response to having being referred to as schizophrenic] Well, that is clearly not my mental illness; I am Bipolar-II - which is the new gladiator sandal! Schizophrenia is, of course, hearing voices- not doing voices. (Maria Bamford)
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull. View quote
Albert Camus
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. View quote
W. C. Fields
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates? View quote
David Suzuki
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line. View quote
Bernie Sanders
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. View quote
Muhammad Ali
God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One he is. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Imagine a permanent, shivering gloom, and never a moment without hunger, thirst and exhaustion. Imagine the constant fear of suffering illness or injury. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are. View quote
David Mitchell (author)
a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for. (Louise Erdrich)
Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure. View quote
Karl Kraus
[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness. View quote
Richard Dawkins
I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. "Three squares a day.” "Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. "Charity begins at home.” "So does mental illness. View quote
Libba Bray
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life. View quote
Daniel Craig
The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy. View quote
Neil Cavuto
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer. View quote
Terry Pratchett
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Well, if you take a roll of film and instead of making pictures on it, you process it by pickling it in vinegar and putting it in a jar and presenting it for people to look at that way, projected through the lens of the fluid around it, this is so distorted and such a monstrous disfigurement of the normal way in which you are 'supposed to use' film, that it is a kind of pathology; it's a sickness in the sense of a virus being inserted in the system. I think wellness and change are measured by comparison to potential for extremes of illness or death. I was trying to kill film. I wanted to let it lay over and die. View quote
Tony Conrad
..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache. (Peter McWilliams)
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. View quote
Peter McWilliams
To heal illness, begin by restoring balance. View quote
Caroline Myss
Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness. View quote
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living. View quote
David D. Burns