Mental Illness Quotes - Page 9

• When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Ana Castillo

  Suicide, Cancer, Political

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Stars, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence.

  Mati Unt

  Depression, Children, Book

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• Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Self, Two

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• Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

  Dean Koontz

  Depression, Psychotic, Paranoid

  Dean Koontz (1999). “Seize the Night”, Bantam

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• One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

  Herman Melville

  Depression, Dream, Thinking

  Pierre bk. 4 (1852)

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• There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Depression, Inexplicable, Streaks

  Octave Mirbeau (1997). “Torture Garden”, Dedalus Limited

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• It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

  Julia Cameron

  Depression, Crazy, Feels Just

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• It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Depression, Humorous, Responsibility

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• Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

  R. D. Laing

  Depression, Mad, Religion

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• Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

  Julie Delpy

  Depression, Psycho, Boring

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• ... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, World, Want

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1405, Delphi Classics

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• ... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Depression, Crazy, Safe

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.104, Vintage

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• A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Depression, Hands, Echoes

  Charles Robert Maturin (2008). “Melmoth the Wanderer: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

  William Godwin

  Depression, Mind, Loathing

  William Godwin (1831). “Caleb Williams”, p.347

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• Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

  Charles Shaar Murray

  Depression, Broken, Trying

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• And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

  John Fowles

  Depression, Mad, Ifs

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Depression, Soul, Innocent

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.391, University of Michigan Press

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• Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Madness

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, Men, Hands

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Long, Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.93, Vintage

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• We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Depression, Suicide

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• Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Kind, Illness

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Depression, Voice, Bipolar

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• I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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