Mental Illness famous quotes

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
-- Alastair Campbell

#People #Four #Mental Illness

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
-- Alexander Pope

#Mind #Mental Illness #Finest

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
-- Amy Tan

#Depression #Use #Mental Illness

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.
-- Anna Castillo

#Insane #Mental Health #Mental Illness

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

#Depression #Responsibility #Mental Illness

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Systematic #Mental Illness #Institutions

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.
-- Brooke Shields

#Black #Mental Illness #Holes

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.
-- Camille Paglia

#Self #Mental Health #Mental Illness

So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.
-- Charlotte Dawson

#Thinking #People #Mental Illness

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.
-- Dean Koontz

#Depression #Mental Illness #Psychotic

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.
-- Elyn Saks

#Lying #Mental Illness #Fortune

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Love Is #Mental Illness #Disorder

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
-- Francis Parker Yockey

#Facts #Mental Illness #Illness

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
-- Gail Porter

#Want #Mental Health #Mental Illness

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.
-- Gail Porter

#Years #Half #Mental Illness

... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
-- George Howe Colt

#Beautiful #Depression #Mental Illness

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
-- George Michael

#Believe #Mental Illness #Illness

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness
-- Glenn Close

#Topics #Speak #Mental Illness

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness
-- Glenn Close

#Thinking #Vocabulary #Mental Illness

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.
-- Graeme Obree

#Mental Illness #Illness

Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
-- Hannibal

#Mental Illness #Illness

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
-- Hilary Mantel

#Medical #Mental Illness #Artefacts

Moods should be heard but never danced to.
-- Hugh Prather

#Depression #Mental Illness #Mood

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
-- Irving Stone

#Book #Mental Illness #Illness

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
-- James Dean Bradfield

#Mental Illness #Miserable #Aggressive

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
-- Jane Pauley

#Cancer #Goal #Mental Illness

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
-- Jane Pauley

#Diagnosis #Mental Illness #Shame

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.
-- John Astin

#World #Normal #Mental Illness

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
-- John Dryden

#Depression #Mad #Mental Illness

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.
-- John Steinbeck

#Depression #Self #Mental Illness

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
-- Judith Guest

#Crazy #Pressure #Mental Illness

Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.
-- Julie Delpy

#Depression #Psycho #Mental Illness

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
-- Juliette Lewis

#Life #Mental Health #Mental Illness

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
-- Karl Kraus

#Mental Illness #Illness #Therapy

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
-- Kate Cann

#Mental Illness #Obsession #Oblivion

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.
-- Katie Price

#Psycho #Mental Illness #Illness

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

#Depression #Mental Illness #Should

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Mental Illness #Illness #Treats

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
-- Kylie Minogue

#Tears #Mental Illness #Kicks

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
-- Luis Bunuel

#Mind #Mental Illness #Poet

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
-- Lysette Anthony

#Suffering #Legacy #Mental Illness

People get really irritated by mental illness.
-- Maria Bamford

#People #Irritated #Mental Illness

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.
-- Mark Vonnegut

#Mental Illness #Schizophrenia #Worst

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.
-- Mark Vonnegut

#Night #Lasts #Mental Illness

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.
-- Mark Vonnegut

#Feelings #Important #Mental Illness

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
-- Marsha M. Linehan

#Mean #Patient #Mental Illness

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.
-- Maya Forbes

#People #Suffering #Mental Illness

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.
-- Melvyn Bragg

#Leaving #Unhappy #Mental Illness

It's great to be young and insane.
-- Michael Keaton

#Depression #Insane #Mental Illness

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
-- Michel de Montaigne

#Memories #Wish #Mental Illness

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Strength #Power #Mental Illness

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
-- Octave Mirbeau

#Depression #Mental Illness #Inexplicable

I was just sort of moving through time.
-- Patty Duke

#Moving #Mental Illness #Rough Times

... I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.
-- Patty Duke

#Night #Mental Illness #Illness

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.
-- Paul Gascoigne

#Goes On #Mental Illness #Problem

Writing my blog has saved me thousands on therapy.
-- Phil Cooke

#Writing #Mental Health #Mental Illness

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
-- Robbie Williams

#Abuse #Mental Illness #Cocaine

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.
-- Robert Collier

#Mold #Helping #Mental Illness

I believe in such a thing called mental illness that leads to some evil.
-- Robert Jeffress

#Believe #Evil #Mental Illness

I will find a way out or make one.
-- Robert Peary

#Depression #Way #Mental Illness

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
-- Robert Smithson

#Mental Illness #Illness #Process

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
-- Robert Todd Carroll

#Anarchy #Mental Illness #Delusion

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
-- Stephanie S. Tolan

#Depression #Mental Illness #Cures

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.
-- Steve Lopez

#Love Is #Mental Illness #Laundry

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
-- Susanna Kaysen

#Communication #Two #Mental Illness

All of us are crazy in one or another way.
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin

#Crazy #Way #Mental Illness

We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?
-- Tipper Gore

#People #Mental Illness #Mets

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
-- Uma Thurman

#Perspective #Mental Illness #Illness

For years now, I've been talking about the rise of the extreme right in the U.S. Since 9/11, white nationalists have killed more Americans on U.S. soil than any foreign or domestic terrorist group combined. It's something we don't categorize as terrorism or extremism. We often brush it off as mental illness - things like Oak Creek Wisconsin - and these people are certainly tied to white supremacy, have written manifestos. We've got a major problem in not calling that terrorism.
-- Christian Picciolini

#People #Problem #Mental Illness

Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.
-- Sinead O'Connor

#Chance #Kind #Mental Illness

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.
-- Brian Lindstrom

#Mental Illness #Film #Heavy

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.
-- Brian Lindstrom

#Thinking #People #Mental Illness

Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.
-- Rosalynn Carter

#Important #Diagnosis #Mental Illness

Tis a mad world, my masters.
-- John Taylor

#Mad #World #Mental Illness

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
-- Kate Cann

#Mental Illness #Obsession #Oblivion