(649 quotes found)
“When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill”
D.H. Lawrence
“So true a fool is love that in your will,Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.”
William Shakespeare
“Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.”
Fran Lebowitz
“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen
“Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change”
Herodotus
“Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life”
Carolyn Wells
“Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.”
Charley Reese
