Illness Quotes

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

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

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

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.

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.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

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

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Art is a kind of illness.

The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.

Sometimes I say the medication is even tougher than the illness.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.