There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is an illness , not an excuse for irresponsibility .” — Talitha Day Fair Copy Share Image
“And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“We should always strive to understand what makes us feel bad... before we feel bad, if possible. As well as what makes… — Alessandro Baronciani Copy Share Image
As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I think that when people see that a successful person who has suffered and is a survivor of mental illness, and is… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow… — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.” — John Green Copy Share Image
My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized.… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
“To the extent that self-expression does broadcast and reinforce a person's character, it clarifies a link between art, eccentricity, and mental illness.… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The local police was her brother Martin, the sheriff. Her father was the Assistant Chief of Police. The last thing she was… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on… — Maya Forbes Copy Share Image
“Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to… — Sady Doyle Copy Share Image
“There’s a link between creativity and mental illness,” Lucas continues. “Creative people feel more, think more. They’re more sensitive. Most people try… — Kyla Stone Copy Share Image
What I want is to talk about how someone raised Muslim struggles with the same stuff that everyone else theoretically could. Obviously,… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“It is safe to assume that, no matter how it appears, the attempt probably did not come out of the blue. Look… — Andrew Slaby Copy Share Image
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“At that moment, when I had the TV sound off, I was in a 382 mood; I had just dialed it. So… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. Richard Carlson” — Paul Huljich Copy Share Image
The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?” — Sonia Estrada Copy Share Image
