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#illness

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #illness




His relationship with illness was flirtatious; only a particularly attractive ailment could tempt him into bed. ↗


— Sam Byers


#illness #relationship

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗


— Kevin Alan Lee


#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. ↗


— Charles Bukowski


#mental-illness #poor #poverty #rich #society

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. ↗


— Jeanette Winterson


#society #world #society

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow. ↗


— Kay Redfield Jamison


#mania #manic #mental-illness #psychology #present

... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing. ↗


— Thomas Bernhard


#carefree #illness #longevity #mortality #aspiration

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that? ↗


— Ramana Maharshi


#meditation #self #stillness #self-realization

Depression is a physical illness. ↗


— Terry Bradshaw


#illness #physical

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been. ↗


— Michael Burgess


#beginnings #called #could #deaths #ended

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


— Alastair Campbell


#illness #lot #mental #mental illness #people






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