Mental illness Quotes

It's great to be young and insane.

— Michael Keaton

I don't even know myself anymore.

— Tay Nicholls

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

— Janet C. Long

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

— Michael Connelly

“Hate is a self-destructive illness.”

— Joan Ambu

You're never too old to be crazy.

— Michael Caine

Love is a grave mental illness.

— Plato

“Not all battles or victories are visible.”

— Brittany Burgunder

“Never underestimate the commercial value of mental illness.”

— Moriah Jovan

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.

— Graeme Obree

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

— David Feherty

Unfortunately, many in our homeless community suffer from severe mental illness.

— Kevin Faulconer

“A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.”

— Amanda Steele

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

— Frank Zappa

“My psychiatrist said I had charisma so at least I'm certified”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well,…

— Pete Earley

“You have to characterize your coworkers and avoid the ones that degrade the workplace harmony.”

— Steven Magee

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

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was…

— Emily Andrews

“The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my…

— Deb Caletti

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left…

— David Auburn

So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always…

— Thomas Szasz

“Do you ever feel as if everything surrounding you is in slow motion, moving through tar? There you are - and there's…

— Kyle Labe

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while…

— Joan Baez

I think of emotional well-being as a resource within each of us that allows us to do more and to perform better.…

— Vivek Murthy

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its…

— Tony Shalhoub

The most dangerous thing, when you have a serious mental illness, is convincing yourself that you don't have it. And you see…

— Noah Hawley

“I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally…

— Olivia Sudjic

“The most dangerous thing of all, and something he wanted to warn me about above all else, the one thing that had…

— Mikael Niemi

“Are you interested in medical marijuana but have no idea what it is? In recent years, there is a growing cry for…

— Kurt

The less control people had over their work, the higher their blood pressure during work hours. Moreover, blood pressure at home was…

— Sheena Iyengar

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own…

— Brad Blanton

“Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at…

— Catherine Lacey

“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and…

— Richard P. Kluft

Number one, we have to talk about mental illnesses. Number two, you can actually address things from a purer and honest direct…

— Mariel Hemingway

“You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was…

— Rachel Reiland