I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. Votes: 4
George Bernard ShawIllness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life. Votes: 3
James HolmanI admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please Votes: 3
Stanley Victor PaskavichIllness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well. Votes: 3
Maria EdgeworthIllness is often a sign that you need to make an adjustment in your life path. Votes: 3
Christiane NorthrupIllness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. Votes: 3
Marcia AngellIllness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you. Votes: 3
Vince LombardiIllness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheIn the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free? Votes: 3
Stanley Victor PaskavichIllness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. Votes: 3
Marcel ProustTo safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. Votes: 2
Francois de La Rochefoucauldlove is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! Votes: 0
Eric Jerome DickeySimon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. Votes: 0
William Goldingillness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ... Votes: 0
Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonWhen there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. Votes: 0
Bernadette PetersTradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWorrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness. Votes: 0
Robin SharmaThe vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody. Votes: 0
Penn JilletteThe family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. Votes: 0
Ashley MontaguMental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two. Votes: 0
Susanna KaysenNostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that todayis tomorrow's nostalgia. Votes: 0
Zeena SchreckThe foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering. Votes: 0
Carl JungTreating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. Votes: 0
Andrew SolomonSerious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerReally, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. Votes: 0
Shannon HaleEmbodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. Votes: 0
Jack KornfieldThe essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns. Votes: 0
Lawrence S. KubieMental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonI don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. Votes: 0
Kirstie AlleyI didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me. Votes: 0
George McGovernIf you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness. Votes: 0
Robin SharmaTime is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain. Votes: 0
Tan Twan EngThere is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. Votes: 0
Thomas SzaszWellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick. Votes: 0
Thomas CarperMental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent Votes: 0
Elizabeth WurtzelWe cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us. Votes: 0
Michael CrichtonThe denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. Votes: 0
M. Scott PeckBipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication Votes: 0
Stanley Victor PaskavichIf many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure Votes: 0
Anton ChekhovA tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness. Votes: 0
George W. BushLove in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome. Votes: 0
Max BeckmannHave you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? Votes: 0
Walker PercyIt's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want. Votes: 0
Jackie MasonMS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. Votes: 0
Annette FunicelloFor every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. Votes: 0
Rudolf SteinerI find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti. Votes: 0
Sally BramptonA love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiI take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it. Votes: 0
Lady GagaI swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoyevskyWriting a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. Votes: 0
George OrwellI did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. Votes: 0
Dennis PotterPhysical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia. Votes: 0
Alistair SinclairThe joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. Votes: 0
John GreenI think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness Votes: 0
Glenn CloseI assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawTo be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage. Votes: 0
Susan FaludiI think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouBut Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. Votes: 0
Christopher ShaysBut Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. Votes: 0
Chris ShaysI believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness Votes: 0
Patty DukeI believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness. Votes: 0
Patty DukeThose who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have it..etc.. Votes: 0
Rhonda ByrnePeople who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. Votes: 0
John WanamakerIf your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well. Votes: 0
Cheshire CatAny treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient. Votes: 0
Jerome FrankRescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyWhy do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up? Votes: 0
Stanley Victor PaskavichAnxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. Votes: 0
Nhat HanhThe good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy. Votes: 0
Neil CavutoI went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that. Votes: 0
Robert SchwentkeThe easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. Votes: 0
Jane RobertsThe worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved Votes: 0
Princess DianaWords can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over. Votes: 0
Tony JudtMy brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him. Votes: 0
Henny YoungmanLoneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovHaving a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale. Votes: 0
Kevin Rudd...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerI think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago. Votes: 0
Sally GrahamMental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them. Votes: 0
Lysette AnthonyOne in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people. Votes: 0
Alastair CampbellKnowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness. Votes: 0
LaoziIf you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope. Votes: 0
George VaillantIn an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. Votes: 0
Alastair CampbellMental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that. Votes: 0
Bruce SpringsteenAIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. Votes: 0
Yusuf HamiedWell, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights. Votes: 0
Christopher MoncktonWell, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights. Votes: 0
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of BrenchleyOld age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. Votes: 0
May SartonLove is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry. Votes: 0
Steve LopezBecause there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of. Votes: 0
John GreenTo hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. Votes: 0
Harry Allen OverstreetIn the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family. Votes: 0
Helen HayesChronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out. Votes: 0
Mark Hyman, M.D.The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice. Votes: 0
Mariel HemingwayI want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means. Votes: 0
Jenny DownhamI wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana Votes: 0
Vinnie PazThe easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. Votes: 1 Jane Roberts
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition. Votes: 3 Tammy Baldwin
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance. Votes: 6 Marya Hornbacher
The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that. Votes: 1 Matthew Quick
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. Votes: 1 Eric McCormack
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. Votes: 2 Leslie Marmon Silko
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. Votes: 1 Richard J. Codey
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. Votes: 1 Mary Wesley
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth. Votes: 3 Kay Redfield Jamison
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. Votes: 3 Thomas R. Insel
It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness. Votes: 3 Roni Askey-Doran
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness. Votes: 1 Gail Porter
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. Votes: 2 Maya Angelou
We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury. Votes: 3 Andrew von Eschenbach
When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter. Votes: 3 Allan Hamilton
Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. Votes: 3 Thomas J. Scheff
Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden. Votes: 3 Ulisses Soares
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution. Votes: 6 Stephen Hawking
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally. Votes: 1 Kay Redfield Jamison
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. Votes: 1 Michael Leunig