Quote by J.M. Ledgard

“I rested my forehead against the wall and closed my eyes. It wasn’t just my curiosity, or my fascination with anatomy, or how I…

— Megan Shepherd

“Anything would be better than these blotches coloured with self-pity and self-importance. Plagued scribbles that sink the heart and darken the soul. Rereading it…

— Marcel M. du Plessis

“The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.”

— Irvine Welsh

“Blood and brain tissue clung to the wet rock like the refuse of a sad picnic.”

— Dan Simmons

“After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more…

— Diane Setterfield

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

— Roger L'Estrange

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He has a vision of the top of his neck, opening up into his head like a bathroom drain. Fragments of words are swirling…

— Margaret Atwood

“Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind”

— Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

“The diagnosis is its own sort of cure.”

— Anne Bogel

“But I do know a kind of madness that lies low in the mind, half-buried in consciousness, which lives in parallel to sanity, and…

— Jenny Diski

“skin-that smooth plump sweetly fragrant sac upon which life scrawls the record of our failures and exhaustion”

— Jennifer Egan