Quotes of: Ills Keyword

            Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of cookie-cutter approach and explanation o...

Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Patch Adams

Just as a medicine may not cure a serious illness, wine will certainly not dispel your grief.

Chinese

Small ills are the fountains of most of our groans. Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

Chinese

Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.

How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

Yayoi Kusama

Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Prozac Nation

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

Rita Mae Brown

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

Marya Hornbacher

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

Clara Hughes

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

Shawn Amos

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

Joni Mitchell

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Elyn Saks

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

Iain McGilchrist

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Brian Wilson

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

Gaby Hoffmann

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Thomas Szasz

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

Andy Behrman