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390 Mental Illness quotes by 281 unique authors

I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull… — Tim Burton
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? — Stephen King
Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often… — Charles Shaar Murray
And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did. — John Fowles
The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. — Allen Ginsberg
I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs… — Hanif Kureishi
Madness is a kind of mental suicide. — Stephen King
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some… — Aristotle
I have a plan-to go mad. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the… — D. H. Lawrence
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to… — Robert M. Pirsig
Too long, the earth has been a madhouse! — Friedrich Nietzsche
We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful! — Gustave Flaubert
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them… — Jeffrey Eugenides
You're never too old to be crazy. — Michael Caine
Moods should be heard but never danced to. — Hugh Prather
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works… — Marcel Proust
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are… — Unknown Author
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ... — Kay Redfield Jamison
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. — Amy Tan
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives… — Camille Paglia
The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and… — Robert Musil
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses. — Elyn Saks

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