#illness

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

— Albert Schweitzer

#because #bother #host #i #i am

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#enjoy #i #illness #makes #part

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#between #dividing #drawn #i #illness

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates? ↗

— David Suzuki

#climb #continue #costs #enable #evolution

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#because #course #death #funny #funny things

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#anyone #even #had #highly #illness

I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#bipolar-life #mental-illness #psychology #life

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. ↗

— Neel Burton

#happiness #madness #mental-illness #modern-life #society

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#illness #love #steve #summer #love

In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#philosophy #love