Mental Disease Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

• Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized… — John Maynard Keynes
• Love: a grave mental disease. — Plato
• Love is a serious mental disease. — Plato
• The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
• A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have… — Ivan Chtcheglov
• A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation… — Ivan Chtcheglov
• Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. — Vittorio Gassman
• The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental… — E. Fuller Torrey
• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart… — Hans Selye
• Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can… — Ruby Wax
• Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful… — Thomas Szasz
• It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. — Gene Tierney
• The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of… — James D. Watson
• A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl
• Love is a grave mental disease. — Plato

Who Wrote These Mental Disease Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 16 Mental Disease Quotes as follows:

• 3 Mental Disease Quotes by Plato
• 2 Mental Disease Quotes by Ivan Chtcheglov
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by John Maynard Keynes
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by Vittorio Gassman
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by Hans Selye
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by Ruby Wax
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by Thomas Szasz
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by Gene Tierney
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by James D. Watson
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by Viktor E. Frankl
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by E. Fuller Torrey
• 1 Mental Disease Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe