Old friends Quote by August Strindberg

“I'm old, sick, tired, disillusioned, harassed, slandered, and unappreciated.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Maybe I am losing it. They say a big sign of mental illness is not knowing you have it. But isn't it real insanity…

— Dakota Lane

“I am feeling much better now. I am fairly certain it was your letters that kept me alive.”

— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

“...I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem...”

— John Geddes

“Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I hadn’t realized what a collage of mental disorders my whole life has been,”

— Jon Ronson

“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“...about a year after that, I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And, you know, you don't want to be rude, so…

— Carrie Fisher

“If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.”

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head.”

— Margaret Atwood

“These were the kind [of letters] you save, folded into a memory box, to be opened years later with fingers against crackling age, heart…

— Eleanor Brown

“Melancholy, my old friend, visits frequent, once again.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith