Mental Illness Quotes - Page 2

• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny Love, Best Love, Romantic Love

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• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  Ray Bradbury

  Insanity, Bipolar, Crazy People

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

  Margaret Atwood

  United States, Canada, Schizophrenia

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• No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

  Elyn Saks

  People, Broken, Legs

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• A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Yesterday, Vision

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.314, Anchor

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• What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

  Stephen King

  Depression, Reality, Glasses

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

  Marcel Proust

  Depression, Art, Thinking

  Le Cote de Guermantes (The GuermantesWay) pt. 1 (1921). George Seldes, The Great Thoughts, quotes Ramon Guthrie: "This passage was meant to show what fools people who are capable of uttering such idiocies are... . It is slap-stick irony that Proust puts into the mouth of a fool (Boulbon) in order to show what a fool he was."

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• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  Ornette Coleman

  Book, Nursing, Nurse

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• What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Positive, Depression, Attitude

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.688, Vintage

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

  Euripides

  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Depression, Men, Mad

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.135, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Funny, Depression, Crazy

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• It's great to be young and insane.

  Michael Keaton

  Depression, Insane, Young

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• Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

  Amy Tan

  Depression, Use, Natural

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• I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.

  Dawn French

  Depression, Crazy, Pills

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• Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Cures, Psychoanalysis

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• The madhouse is in a lot of places, not just a hospital, not just a palace, but also a pattern woven from threads so fine that no one can distinguish them, neither the Emperor nor the children, neither you nor I.

  Einar Mar Guðmundsson

  Depression, Children, Woven

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• You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Depression, Should Have, Sane

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• I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

  Frank Zappa

  Depression, Thinking, America

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• The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

  Chase Twichell

  Depression, Country, Depressed Person

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• Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

  Karl Kraus

  Therapy, Regard, Psychoanalysis

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Personality, Insanity

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• The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

  Juliette Lewis

  Life, Mental Health, Continuing

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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• My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Betrayal, Lying, Believe

  "Oprah On Turning 60: ‘Every Day And Every Breath Is Magic’" by Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2014.

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