These medication quotes will inspire you. A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging medication quotes, medication sayings, and medication proverbs.
Best Medication Quotes
- “It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication, and a government bureaucracy to administer it.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “Medication should never be considered the only tool for helping a person.” ~ Temple Grandin
- “The doctor of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~” ~ Thomas A. Edison
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“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” ~ Lord Byron
- “Medication can help us live a happier life.” ~ Carnie Wilson
- “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” ~ Anna Deavere Smith
- “I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don’t feel bad about it.” ~ Lady Gaga
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“Medication without explanation is obscene.” ~ Toni Cade Bambara
- “We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain” ~ Conor Oberst
- “Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.” ~ Maimonides
- “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” ~ Marcia Angell
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“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.” ~ Tanya Tucker
- “I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don’t do only that. You also need to train your mind.” ~ Daniel Goleman
- “I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I’m planning to eat, and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That’s not so difficult now, but when you’re 10 years old, it’s tough, let me tell you.” ~ Dana Hill
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“About half of all people don’t take medications like they’re supposed to.” ~ Eric Topol
- “I’m fine, but I’m bipolar. I’m on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I’m never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It’s like being a diabetic.” ~ Carrie Fisher
- “The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.” ~ Daniel Goleman , Depression medication quotes
- “I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.” ~ Toni Braxton
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“Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.” ~ Peter McWilliams
- “Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.” ~ Frederick Banting
- “Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one-half, the cases medicine is not needed or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws–hygiene [sic] of the body, and hygiene of the spirit–is the surest warrant for health and happiness.” ~ Harriot Kezia Hunt
- “Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It’s an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.” ~ Peter McWilliams
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“As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can’t afford it. That is my goal.” ~ Montel Williams
- “If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.” ~ Temple Grandin
- “I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I’m getting used to the medication.” ~ Evel Knievel
- “Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing, and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors’ pills that kill the liver.” ~ Roseanne Barr
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“Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.” ~ Colin Hanks
- “About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.” ~ Hippocrates
- “Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we’re very professional. I use exercise as my medication.” ~ Trisha Goddard
- “The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.” ~ Pauline Hanson
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“I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?” ~ Gene Tierney
- “First, modify the patient’s diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not affect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.” ~ Sun Simiao
- “The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.” ~ Oliver Sacks
- “Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure.” ~ Joseph Heller
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“There’s nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can’t cure.” ~ Woody Allen
- “I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes.” ~ Richard M. Nixon
- “Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior’s healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.” ~ Dennis Hastert
- “I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.” ~ Eric Topol
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“Medications almost always do it better if they’re used in conjunction with other supports.” ~ Mehmet Oz
- “Medications can lower a woman’s sex drive and interfere with a woman’s ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills, and hormone medications. I only know of three antidepressants that do not interfere with a woman’s sexual function.” ~ Drew Pinsky
- “We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are the people who are losing it. We don’t have enough competition. There’s a doctor monopoly out there. We need alternative health care freely available to the people. They ought to be able to make their own choices and not controlled by the FDA preventing them to use some of the medications.” ~ Ron Paul
- “Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
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“moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.” ~ John Green
- “Well to me growing, up I’ve had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn’t come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.” ~ Adam Beach
- “I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication…Not easy. There’s an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going, “Well, this one is quick-acting but this is long-lasting…Which is more important, the present or the future?”” ~ Jerry Seinfeld
- “Medication is, of course, important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
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“Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it’s the happy people who need medication.” ~ Marc Maron
- “Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me – my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It’s a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.” ~ Chaka Khan , Self medication quotes
- “Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.” ~ Anuj
- “There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.” ~ Sandra Fluke
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“When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.” ~ Michael C. Burgess
- “Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.” ~ Jim Gerlach
- “Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.” ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it’s a controlled substance.” ~ Rima Fakih
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“I think it’s a really sad situation when I have to lie to my doctor about what I need a medication for.” ~ Liz Miller
- “Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.” ~ Alain de Botton
- “The second edition of There Is a Cure for Diabetes is groundbreaking. Dr. Gabriel Cousens gets impressive results that speak for themselves. He is reducing and even eliminating the need for medication, rated by The Journal of the American Medical Association as the fourth leading cause of death in people with diabetes. This well-documented book is all the more important and a better alternative.” ~ Terry Shintani
- “You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.” ~ Jack Gantos
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“If I put faith in medication if I can smile a crooked smile if I can talk on television if I can walk an empty mile.” ~ David Bowie
- “I had a 23 percent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first, the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.” ~ Toni Braxton
- “Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive — and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.” ~ Thomas Sowell
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“I don’t take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.” ~ Alicia Silverstone
- “A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication. To the extent an organism is administered medication, to the same extent, it is condemned to being unable to react on its own. Moreover, when it is deprived of the medication, it dies; it is at the mercy of the pharmacist! Likewise, a political movement is at the mercy of those who finance it. These could cease their financing at any given moment and the movement, unaccustomed to living on its own, dies.” ~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
- “The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton’s Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on the passage from religion toward faith, from self-medication to sobriety, from daughterhood to motherhood, from being the disembodied ‘good girl’ to embracing her own bad lesbian self. In crisp chapters, Seaton leads us, step-by-step, over this harrowing and blissful road, so distinct from yet so much like our own.” ~ Terry Wolverton
