I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.
Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest. " And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement. " And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail. . . . the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.
In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
People get really irritated by mental illness.
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.
. . . I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.
France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?