Illness Quotes
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Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
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Depression is a physical illness.
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You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!
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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
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One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
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Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
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Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.
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The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.
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There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.
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I think we need to talk about mental illness a lot more. People complain about tax dollars and say we don't have the money. But if we can't put some of our investments, or some of our money back into humans, isn't that where it all begins?
