"People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better."

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Source : "Doing Psychiatry Wrong: A Critical and Prescriptive Look at a Faltering Profession" by René J. Muller, (p. 62), 2013.

John Forbes Nash

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.”
“The reason actors are ***** is because they don't eat.”
“I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.”
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.”
“Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.”
“But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit...”

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