Illness Quotes - Page 6

All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it's not even mentioned in our Western medical textbooks.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

Depression is a physical illness.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

civilization is a transient sickness.

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.

It's great to be young and insane.

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

True power is stillness within motion.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.