“Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals… — David Karp Copy Share Image
When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn't always have the right terms for it,… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
“Taxpayers and legislators alike seem generally ignorant of the extent to which they are being soaked by the hidden costs of this… — Ron Powers Copy Share Image
I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“False humility is a form of psychosis which was imprinted on most of us since birth. It is a mental illness because… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and… — Andrea Yates Copy Share Image
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“We who were not so pathologically far out on the spectrum of self-involvement, we dwellers of the visible spectrum who could imagine… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong.… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“Psychiatric disorders are the only kind of sickness that we as a society regularly respond to not with sympathy but with handcuffs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“If a mentally ill person really works at self - control , she can do most things she could do otherwise .” — Talitha Day Fair Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on… — AJ Lee Copy Share Image
Racism is a strange mental illness where you look at somebody and say, 'I hate you because of the colour of your… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“Aside from being famous, what do Beethoven, Mark Rothko, Hemingway, Francis Ford Coppola, Van Gogh, Alvin Ailey, Robin Williams, Sylvia Plath, Balzac,… — B.A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
With commitment and the right investments, we can create a San Francisco where no one is forced, relegated, or allowed to sleep… — London Breed Copy Share Image
