Disorder Quotes - Page 3

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.

It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.

I hate religion. I think it's a neurological disorder.

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.