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Mental Illness Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- ... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...
- ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
- A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
- 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…
- When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.
- I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with…
More Mental Illness Quotes
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you… — Roseanne Barr
- The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. — Alfred Adler
- The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of… — Rita Mae Brown
- Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day… — Frank Bruno
- Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad,… — Frank Bruno
- I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. — Kirstie Alley
- The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred… — Leonard Cohen
- When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a… — Fiona Apple
- If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it… — Tommy Douglas