Illness Quotes - Page 2

• People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

  John Wanamaker

  Funny, Time, Pyramids

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Religion, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene”, p.330, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, World Suffering, Want Something

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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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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• To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Food, Health, Exercise

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• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny Love, Best Love, Romantic Love

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• I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

  Anthony Storr

  Bipolar, Lines, Want

  " Anthony Storr, the face of psychiatry, dies" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001.

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