Day Quote by Michael Leunig

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some…

— Chris Van Allsburg

Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled…

— Susan Sontag

To some extent, we all have quirks or idiosyncrasies, and some geniuses, because of how bright they are and how focused they are, may…

— Darold Treffert

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains…

— Ilka Chase

“The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often…

— Susan Cain

'Imposter Syndrome' is the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that one does not feel at home in. It is when…

— Luvvie Ajayi

“Look beyond the talker, and uncover the stalker. If the mind is darkened with character disEASE, the behavior will symptomatically follow...those whose mentality becomes…

— Tracey Bond

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the…

— John Cheever

“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become…

— Erich Fromm

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

— Sergei Lukyanenko

I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods…

— Harold Pinter