Illness

(170 votes)   It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

Antonin Artaud
1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist

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(127 votes)   There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

R. D. Laing
1927-1989, British Psychiatrist

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(119 votes)   Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

R. D. Laing
1927-1989, British Psychiatrist

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(83 votes)   To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Fyodor Dostoevski
1821-1881, Russian Novelist

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(71 votes)   I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(64 votes)   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.

Mother Goose

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(62 votes)   Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.

Georgia White

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(60 votes)   If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Ben Jonson
1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet

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(60 votes)   The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(59 votes)   When an elderly woman was asked why she was standing in line to buy stamps from a teller when she could have used a stamp machine she replied: The machine won't ask me about my arthritis!

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