“First love is not always happy. It can sometimes be like a terrible illness.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Thus the incidence of mental illness correlates closely to income in the US and the UK,” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.” — Roni Askey-Doran Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that… — Tia Mowry Copy Share Image
“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?” — Michaela Haze Copy Share Image
It's not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can't escape this bubble from being… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them. — Lysette Anthony Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
“The panic was there, staring me down in the face, all the time, like I had a hoodie on backwards and I… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
“Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth. ... Can waiting by definition… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we… — Tom Bosley Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This (illness) is what I have wanted all my life from… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemy’s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know… — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the… — Jim Stovall Copy Share Image
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil. — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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![“This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8fa/david-foster-wallace-161_about-yourself_this-story-the-depressed-person-was-the_2572995.jpg)
