Mental Illness

Famous quotes containing the words mental illness, mental and/or illness:

    “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.”
    —Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

    “Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.”
    —Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)

    “To you illness is negligible. You have learned that you can dominate yourself. You know that your body lags, but your soul proceeds upon its triumphant way.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)