Illness Quotes - Page 8

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.

If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

Literature + Illness = Illness

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

Meditation, stillness, time simply to 'be', to do nothing at all and to do it with joy

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

Stillness is easy to maintain.

Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away