Best Mental Illness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 26

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

“My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.”

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Author:Jane Pauley

“A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.”

Enough Shame Burden Mental Illness Secrecy Diagnosis

Author:Jane Pauley

“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.”

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Author:Gail Porter

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”

“I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.”

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Author:Tony Shalhoub

“Sanity is a cozy lie.”

Lying Women Depression Mental Illness Memorable Sanity Cozy

Author:Susan Sontag

“I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.”

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Author:Anthony Storr

“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

“Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.”

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Author:Thomas Szasz

“There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.”

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Author:Thomas Szasz

“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”

Shows Purpose Names Nature Conditions Needed Concepts Evidence Illness Obvious Mental Illness Obscure

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.”

Mind Ideas States Inspiration Practice Meditation Mental Illness Transformed

Author:Swami Vivekananda

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

“The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.”

People Believe Individual Christ Messages Illness Mental Illness Our Society Cliche Disturbed Neurosis

Author:Robert Winston

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

Love Life Giving Mind Turns Growth Brain Learning Mental Health Mental Illness Biology Of My Mind

Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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?”

Ifs Thinking Feels I Can Care Moving Sad Depression Mental Health Mental Illness

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

“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.”

People Feels Pain Loses Forget Wonder Violence Loneliness Taste Lonely Illness Mental Illness Unwanted Unloved Being Unloved

Book:Becoming Human

Source: Becoming Human

“It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.”

Believe Universe Normal Rain Window Atheist Illness Communicate Creator Accidents Mental Illness Code Our Society Bedroom Morse Code

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.”

Love Is Illness Mental Illness Coming Out Laundry

Author:Steve Lopez

“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

“Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?”

Thinking Men Realizing Powerful Brain Example Fairs Aspect Illness Mental Illness Insane

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

Heart My Heart Mental Health Mental Illness Insane Occasions Touched

Book:The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Source: The Murders in the Rue Morgue

“Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.”

Choices Sound Becoming Illness Mental Illness

Author:Shannon Hale

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.”

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

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

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Author:Voltaire

“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”

Matter Steps Laughing Forever Magic Self Esteem Easier Mirrors Mental Illness Esteem Cures Self Respect Unexpected Going Away Anorexia Eating Disorder Small Steps Wintergirls

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.”

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Author:Frank Bruno

“Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.”

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Author:Frank Bruno

“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

“The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides”

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Book:Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness”

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”

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Book:Bradbury Stories

Source: Bradbury Stories

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

Self Depression Capacity Mental Illness Delusion Boundless Self Delusion

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!”

Love Is Illness Mental Illness Disorder Obsessive Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Eric Jerome Dickey

“Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.”

Believe Eye I Believe My Own Creativity Illness Extremes Mental Illness Links

Book:Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

Source: Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade

“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”

“Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.”

Shows Dream Young Mercy Illness Storm Endless Mental Illness Unexpected Dropping Poorest

Author:Steve Lopez

“I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.”

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Author:Russell Brand

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.”

Sometimes Feelings Wanted Pain Fear Talking Mental Health Mental Illness No Fear Ugliness No Pain Ink Exchange

Book:Ink Exchange

Source: Ink Exchange

“If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --"The Content of the Psychoses”

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Book:Liber Novus

Source: Liber Novus

“[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.”

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Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.”

Ifs Way Years Young Felt Waiting Five Adults Illness Conviction Mental Illness Insane Drunk Hated Five Years Hallucinations

Book:For The Win

Source: For The Win

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