What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. (Quote by - Kate Millett)

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. (Quote by - Sima Qian)

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it. (Quote by - Mother Goose)

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy. (Quote by - Neil Cavuto)

Cancer , like any other illness, is a bore. (Quote by - Alan Bennett)

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness. (Quote by - Ville Valo)

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way. (Quote by - Marcia Wallace)

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. (Quote by - John Wanamaker)

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic. (Quote by - Carrie Fisher)

I'm looking forward to getting back out there and playing against Australia in the Ashes [days before he returned home with 'stress related illness'] (Quote by - Marcus Trescothick)

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us. (Quote by - Patti Davis)

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. (Quote by - Salvatore Quasimodo)

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present. (Quote by - Naomi Judd)

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. (Quote by - Karen Duffy)

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. (Quote by - Francis Parker Yockey)

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. (Quote by - Edvard Munch)

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. (Quote by - Adam Ant)

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. (Quote by - Michael Burgess)

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. (Quote by - Thomas Szasz)

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)

It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness. (Quote by - Karen Duffy)