Illness Quotes

1077 Illness quotes by 776 unique authors

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness — Glenn Close
The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any… — Orson Scott Card
There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this… — Neko Case
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for… — Anthony Loyd
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. — Suzanne Collins
The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot… — Lauren Slater
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out… — Hanif Kureishi
A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane.… — Andrew Solomon
I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush… — Stephenie Meyer
The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're… — Chase Twichell
Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a… — David Karp
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent… — Al Alvarez
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something… — Alan Cumming
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms… — Sylvia Plath
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative… — Sylvia Plath
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the… — Sylvia Plath
... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ... — Sylvia Plath
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst… — Sylvia Plath
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. — Sylvia Plath
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless… — Sylvia Plath
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence… — Andrew Solomon
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity… — Philip O Ceallaigh
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should… — William Shakespeare
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know. — John Dryden

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