“I have a mind like a sieve, where sadness sits and happiness slips” — Kara Petrovic Copy Share Image
... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day. — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
“Another image comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin. Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.” — Thomas Scheff Copy Share Image
“Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital." I assumed Johanna was fine, had passed her exam,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I remember being in middle and high school and hearing Demi Lovato speak up about her mental illness, and that was comforting. — Lili Reinhart Copy Share Image
Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Whenever the keys to self-esteem are seemingly out of reach for a large percentage of the people, as in twentieth-century America, then… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you cry out in pain from a broken wrist, no one questions it. You just go to the hospital and take… — Torrey DeVitto Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.” — Michael Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
