Illness Quotes - page 3

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved. (Diana, Princess of Wales)
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad. View quote
Martin Seligman
You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them. View quote
Mehmet Oz
does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are? View quote
Neal Shusterman
I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality. View quote
Pierre Loti
I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise. View quote
Rebecca Wells
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse. View quote
Regina Brett
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. View quote
Annette Funicello
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche? View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness. (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels. View quote
Fran Drescher
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. View quote
Hans Eysenck
Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness. View quote
Hilary Mantel
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. View quote
Shannon Hale
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book. View quote
Irving Stone
Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing. View quote
Barbara Brennan
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. View quote
Adam Ant
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. View quote
Deb Caletti
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer. View quote
David Perlmutter
Energy healing is based on the supposition that illness results from disturbances in the body's energies and energy fields and can be addressed via interventions into those energies and energy fields. (Jed Diamond)
You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things. View quote
James Hillman
Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. "Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.” Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home... View quote
Eric McCormack
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change. View quote
Eric McCormack
I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness. View quote
Carl Hiaasen