Chill Quote by William Styron

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts,…

— Byron Katie

“On occasion, these periods of total despair would be made even worse by terrible agitation. My mind would race from subject to subject, but…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I had this total horror of the idea that I might lose my mental faculties before being able to make a choice about treatment…

— Nick Boles

The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in…

— Antoni Tapies

I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on…

— John Abercrombie

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall…

— H. P. Lovecraft

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical"…

— Susan Sontag

I struggled with kind of fighting with the inner illnesses within myself where my psychological madness and I have always kind of struggled with…

— Maria Brink

“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with…

— Antonin Artaud

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

— Jerry Kramer

I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I was convinced I had a giant brain tumour. I thought, 'I don't believe this. It's like a bad episode of Brookside.' That's when…

— Dave Myers