Mentally ill Quotes

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

— Tim Minchin

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

— Penn Jillette

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

— Glenn Close

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

— Alan Dershowitz

Nothing says 'mentally ill and loving it' like stuffed animals in your car window.

— Anonymous

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

— Roseanne Barr

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“In all these years, I’ve never seen you smile so often. Are you mentally ill?”

— Graham Parke

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because…

— Mary Harron

“Mother Teresa said: "The dying, the crippled, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved - they are JESUS IN DISGUISE...”

— Tom Davis

I dont think people should own a gun.guns are ment to kill.the only people who shold own a gun is the police…

— Kamau Kamanga

“The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.”

— Mark Vonnegut

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

— Phil Elverum

The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

— Patty Duke

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe…

— Stephen King

In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation with my…

— James Remar

It sounded weird to hear you talk so much; normally you only said a few words at a time. I'd never imagined…

— Lucy Christopher

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to…

— John Darnielle

Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and…

— William Baldwin

Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy…

— Jessie Bernard

We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his…

— Clara Jeffery

“He loved the idea that he was mentally ill,” said his daughter Monica, “and hated the idea he was an alcoholic”—that is,…

— Blake Bailey

The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for…

— Anne Rice

We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would never think to say that one is cancer.…

— Paul Gruchow

Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted…

— Paulo Coelho

Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her.…

— Frank Portman

Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of…

— Edward St Aubyn

“What sticks with me now is that this man said he needed to get to a hospital. He probably needed to reach…

— Susan Nielsen

“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled,…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the word, a place where the U.S. government now puts…

— Piper Kerman

“Whenever I start to doubt if I’m worth the eternal trouble of medication and therapy, I remember those people who let the…

— Jenny Lawson

“When a man’s face contorts in bitterness and hatred, he looks a little insane. When his mood changes from elated to assaultive…

— Lundy Bancroft

“More or less the same can be said for Art Therapy, which is organized infantilism. Our class was run by a delirious…

— William Styron

“What is a life mate?” “If you would care to sit down, I’ll explain,” Anders said quietly. Valerie sat down. She could…

— Lynsay Sands

“To be a full-blooded hillbilly was to be a living koan. Half of you wanted to be dignified and half of you…

— Carolyn Jourdan

“Campaign to destigmatize so-called "mental illness" often take a wrong turning here. They try to demonstrate how suffers of some condition have…

— Darian Leader

“The conservative ideology sees LGBT rights as an affront to the traditional way of life, for some reason. We are attacked as…

— Ian Thomas Malone

“Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressive and…

— Abigail George

“People always feel sorry for you if you’re physically sick. It doesn’t matter if you have cancer or a cold. People always…

— Annie. Ortiz