Best depression & mental-illness Quotes

“Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.”

People Years Firsts Mean Eye Black Fields College Depression Lonely Empty Illness Woods Critical Mental Illness Routes Cemetery Creeks Semester Lonely Places

Author:Samantha Abeel

“I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.”

Fall Depression Illness Mental Illness Crash

Author:Emily Dickinson

“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.”

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Author:Antonin Artaud

“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.”

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”

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Book:The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

“I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.”

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Author:Tracy Thompson

“It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.”

Giving Enough Speak Depression Illness Reactions Mental Illness Stimulus

Author:Martha Manning

“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”

“I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.”

People Ifs Feels Looks Sometimes Wonder Laughing Crazy Depression Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Notches

Author:Martha Manning

“Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.”

“I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.”

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.”

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Book:NOS4R2

Source: NOS4R2

“You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.”

Knows Nice Depression Illness Mental Illness Scare Being Nice Paranoid Schizophrenic

Author:Steven Wright

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.”

“In a mad world only the mad are sane.”

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Author:Akira Kurosawa

“Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”

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Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

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Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Sanity is a cozy lie.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.”

Ifs Humor Prayer Praying Depression Humorous Mental Illness Cynical Schizophrenia Talking To God Always Praying

Author:Thomas Szasz

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”

“If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”

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Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.”

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Book:The Time Traveler’s Wife

Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent”

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Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”

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Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.”

“I'll be the in to your sane.”

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Author:Gary Numan

“The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.”

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Author:Carrie Fisher

“The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.”

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Author:Linda Hamilton

“There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.”

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Author:Neko Case

“On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.”

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Book:My War Gone By, I Miss It So

Source: My War Gone By, I Miss It So

“Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.”

Light Quiet Depression Illness Mental Illness Gloom Light Up

Book:The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy

“The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.”

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Author:Lauren Slater

“A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.”

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.”

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Book:Breaking Dawn: Twilight

Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight

“The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.”

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Author:Chase Twichell

“Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.”

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Author:David Karp

“Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.”

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Author:Al Alvarez

“I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.”

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Author:Alan Cumming

“Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.”

Night Hell Tomorrow Depression Illness Mental Illness Dawn Curse Bells Alarms Sirens

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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