#illness

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #illness




Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.


Susanna Kaysen


#girl-interrupted #insanity #mental-illness #mental-illness

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.


Sylvia Plath


#mental-illness #mental-illness

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".


Joanne Greenberg


#mental-illness #mental-illness

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.


Pat Barker


#mental-illness #ptsd #trauma #war #mental-illness

My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it


Stephanie Ware


#mental-illness

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.


Mark Vonnegut


#insane #insanity #mental-illness #mental-illness

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.


Said Nursi


#islam #nursi #sufism #worry #islam

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


Adam Ant


#i #illness #life #most #my life

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.


Tom Bosley


#depression #happy #illnesses #just #like

Depression is a physical illness.


Terry Bradshaw


#illness #physical