Mental Illness Quotes

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

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

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

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

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

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

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.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

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

I think love is one that can definitely make you go crazy, and it's almost like love can induce mental illness in a lot of people, or bring it out worse. It makes people make crazy decisions.

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

You're never too old to be crazy.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

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

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?

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.

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.

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

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

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

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

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with 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.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

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

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.

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.

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.