Illness Quotes - Page 15

• For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Feet, Sick

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• All of us are crazy in one or another way.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Crazy, Way, Mental Illness

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• Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mental Illness, Breakthrough, Breakdown

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• Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

  Saul Bellow

  Crazy, Mental Illness, Evidence

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.61, Odyssey Editions

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• Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment. What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.

  James Morcan

  Mean, Medicine, People

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• It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sometimes, Mental Illness, Madmen

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• Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

  Thomas Szasz

  Pills, Moral, Bitter

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.156, Routledge

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• Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Wine, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.42

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• The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

  Alexander Pope

  Mind, Mental Illness, Finest

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.311

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• ... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

  Gilda Radner

  Get Well, Cancer, Wells

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

  Norman Cousins

  Essentials, Disease, Panic

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• When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mistake, Men, Madness

  "On the Constitution of the Church and State".

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• Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

  Pat Conroy

  Eye, Mental Illness, Craziness

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.791, Open Road Media

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• It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

  John Steinbeck

  Insane, Nerves, Calm

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.92, Penguin

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• I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

  John Steinbeck

  Greatest Fear, People, Sickness

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.710, Penguin

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• Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

  Norman Mailer

  Insanity, Foundation, Mental Illness

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• Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Insanity, Mind

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• A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

  Luis Bunuel

  Mind, Mental Illness, Poet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

  Elias Canetti

  Thinking, Two, Differences

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• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

  Hippocrates

  Physicians, Disease, Patient

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.360

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• Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

  Jean Houston

  Health, Eye, Reality

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• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  Karl Abraham

  Difficult Questions, Long, Choices

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• Make sickness itself a prayer.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Prayer, Sickness

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.4260, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

  Janet Frame

  Home, World, Able

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

  Judith Guest

  Crazy, Pressure, Mental Illness

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