Mental Disease Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Echolalia is a mental disease which makes people immediately repeat things that well people around them say. But Billy didn’t really have it. Rumfoord…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Nobody took Rumfoord’s diagnosis seriously. The staff thought Rumfoord was a hateful old man, conceited and cruel. He often said to them, in one…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Barbee had wondered about insanity, sometimes with a brooding dread - for his own father, whom he scarcely remembered, had died in the forbidding…

— Jack Williamson

“Now it occurred to him the changes of mental state that might be important were just such minor things as this abnormal irritability. Not…

— Don Berry

“It was difficult for Rumfoord to take Billy seriously, since Rumfoord had so long considered Billy a repulsive non-person who would be much better…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Good poetry, like music or a sweet touch, can doctor us up, be an antidote for an hour or longer, help us to get…

— Daniel Ladinsky

“Disease is a speech of the psyche. ...the psyche is a polyglot, for if it converts fear into symptoms it also converts hope.”

— Saul Bellow

“Through this image he had a glimpse of a strange dark cavern of speculation but at once turned away from it, feeling that it…

— James Joyce

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under…

— Gene Tierney

“That puppet there,’ continued the Talking-cricket, ‘is a confirmed rogue. …’ Pinocchio opened his eyes, but shut them again immediately. ‘He is a ragamuffin,…

— Carlo Collodi

“He felt as if he were under an intolerable physical strain, as if his body were likely at any moment to fly to pieces.…

— Iris Murdoch

“It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands…

— Cormac McCarthy