Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS.

Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

I wear scarves all the time. Even in the summer, I wear scarves - even a thin one. My old vocal teacher told me that, and I stick to it. The only time I get sick is when I forget to wear my scarf. I don't know, it might be mental, but it works for me.

I'm not ill, I'm just pale.

I went through the process of trying to convince myself I was not ill.

I think I'm absolutely perfect. Because if I'm not good at something I completely banish it from my mind. Completely. Like it never happened.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.