Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do.

He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

But he knew what was wrong with him; he was ashamed of himself and afraid of them- afraid of the society whe so despised.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.

victimnoun ˈvik-təm 1. The moment you tell everyone you have a mental disorder, in order to excuse your behavior.

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.