Illness Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words.
  A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Reading, Men, Sick

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.6, Tharpa Publications US

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• Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Kindness, Doctors

  Cities of the Plain Pt I, Ch. 1,'My Social Life'

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• The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

  Norman Cousins

  Spiritual, Get Well, Fighting

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• People get really irritated by mental illness.

  Maria Bamford

  People, Irritated, Mental Illness

  "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

  Mira Bartok

  Helping, Mental Health, Crisis

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Martin Seligman

  Believe, Opposites, Suffering

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• Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

  Pete Earley

  Giving Up, Character, School

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". Interview with Lizzie Simon, www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

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• 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.

  Hans Eysenck

  Mean, Years, Two

  Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Glenn Daniel Wilson (1973). “The experimental study of Freudian theories”, Methuen Publishing

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• For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

  Richard Codey

  Afterlife, Long, Bipolar

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• We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Stories, World

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• The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sympathy, Kindness, Health

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Friendship, Depressing

  Rita Mae Brown (1989). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, Bantam

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• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Love, Relationship, Fall

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Aug 07, 2013

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• Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Disease, Way, Mess

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jun 01, 2012

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• If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

  Margaret Atwood

  United States, Canada, Mental Illness

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• If you think research is expensive, try disease!

  Mary Lasker

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Trying

  "The Lasker Legacy". www.laskerfoundation.org.

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• A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

  Lauren Bacall

  Love You, Men, Healthy

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mean, Years, Pioneers

  "Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a 'Working-Class Domestic Goddess'". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 25, 2011.

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• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  Ornette Coleman

  Book, Nursing, Nurse

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• 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.

  Daniel Craig

  Zoos, Trying, Want

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

  Annette Funicello

  Progressive

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

  Karl Kraus

  Mental Illness, Therapy, Regard

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Insane, Asylums, Results

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

  Rich Lowry

  Mean, America, People

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