Mental Illness Quotes
I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.
We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.
Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.
Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.
I’m afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are.
Genius by birth, Bipolar by design
The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.
There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion of my body looking back at me everywhere.
It's not about blame or wallowing...you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating the life you want.
If every Genius has a touch of Madness, does every Normal person have a touch of Ignorance ?
Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there...
Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.
There are such things as delusions, but not every unlikely vision that the mentally ill have is imaginary.
A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.
Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.
I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.
Cause I'd rather stay hereWith all the madmenThan perish with the sadmen roaming freeAnd I'd rather play hereWith all the madmenFor I'm quite content they're all as saneAs me
While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.
Your mother is going to be fine, " the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine. Was she fine before?
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.
I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity
There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.
The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.
My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it
My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.
When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what's real
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.