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390 Mental Illness quotes by 281 unique authors

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — William J. Clinton
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure — Karl Kraus
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one. — Marsha M. Linehan
I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever… — John Marsden
I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole. — Brooke Shields
There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help — Catherine Zeta-Jones
It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me. — George Michael
I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family. — Ben Stiller
Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a… — Sinead O'Connor
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On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for… — Anthony Loyd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

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