Mental Illness Quotes - Page 11

• A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

  Luis Bunuel

  Mind, Poet, Paranoia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Insanity, Mind

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• Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

  Norman Mailer

  Insanity, Foundation, Building

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• It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

  John Steinbeck

  Insane, Nerves, Calm

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.92, Penguin

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• Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

  Pat Conroy

  Eye, Craziness, Hamstrings

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.791, Open Road Media

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• When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mistake, Men, Madness

  "On the Constitution of the Church and State".

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• It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sometimes, Madmen, Pleasant

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• Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

  Saul Bellow

  Crazy, Evidence, Species

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.61, Odyssey Editions

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• 15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

  Thom Yorke

  Dancing, Trying, Looks

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• I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Fashion, Loneliness, Gay

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

  Lisa Gardner

  Kids, Needs, Disease

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• A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Anarchy, Delusion, Cult

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• ... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I lie still like this for long enough, then I'll be dead when I finally wake again, and nothing can ever again torment me, beset me, or present me with evidence of my baseness and decay. That thought is the only one that can comfort me.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Lying, Tired

  Christer Kihlman (1990). “The blue mother”

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• ... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

  George Howe Colt

  Depression, Beautiful, Unbalanced

  George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition." I hoped I suffered from something serious, a clear syndrome, maybe requiring heavy medication and hospitalization. I pictured myself wearing a robe and paper slippers and looking out of a window with bars on it. I wanted to be relieved of the responsibility of taking any action to help myself.

  Ken Dornstein

  Depression, Responsibility, Bars

  Ken Dornstein (2007). “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky”, p.134, Vintage

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• You're never too old to be crazy.

  Michael Caine

  Depression, Crazy, Illness

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• I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from outside. It happened so quickly and took me by surprise; sometimes I just turned around and found it there-ah, camarade-unaware it had been waiting for me for days.

  Bryan Mealer

  Depression, Waiting, Darkness

  Bryan Mealer (2008). “All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo”, Bloomsbury USA

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• We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

  Elyn Saks

  Motivation, Inspiration, Jail

  "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

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• The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Ignorance, Reality

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• The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

  Robert Musil

  Differences, Healthy, Facts

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• My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

  Sarah Lancashire

  Depression, Writing, Twenties

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• They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Depression, Steps, Helping

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

  Melinda Gates

  Depression, Suicidal, Thinking

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• That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

  Lenny Henry

  Depression, Home, Funny Things

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• Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

  Stephanie S. Tolan

  Depression, Cures, Inevitable

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