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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If it was true, as Henry Meloux said, that he'd heard the Windigo call his name, he understood why now. Because it felt exactly…

— William Kent Krueger

“Yet Frodo began to hear, or to imagine that he heard, something else: like the faint fall of soft bare feet. It was never…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Billy stayed in the wagon when it reached the slaughterhouse, sunning himself. The others went looking for souvenirs. Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was her. She made his lungs…

— V. Theia

“Rumpel kissed as he lived his life—without rules or conscience.”

— Vivian Arend