Mental-health Quotes

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...

You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, what...

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is s...

Julian had heard stories-whispers really-of other Shadowhunter children who thought or felt differen...

Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.

What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, m...

a manual for how to build a mentally ill child

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which m...

She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday ...

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings pro...

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life...

That's the most important thing for a sickness like ours: a sense of trust. If I put myself in this ...

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of...

I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.

It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalance...

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damag...

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, f...

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to the world fr...

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just t...

There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to ...

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgement...

Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years ...

Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative...

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. ...

Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed.

Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.Why?It makes me paranoid.

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane...

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are...

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A...

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected u...

…much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. W...

I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being simi...

Mental health is one of the last great taboos.

The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from indivi...

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inn...

Viscosity occurs on a cellular level. And so does velocity.In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma,...

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire fam...

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against ...

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...

I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, h...

The reason why I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.I saw the days o...

My mother smiled. "I knew my baby wasn't like that."I looked at her. "Like what?""Like those awful p...

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like...

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me ...

In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental h...

Although both home and mental illness are complex, modern ideas, we have fallen into the habit of us...

I remember, when I was about ten years old, working out that I would be thirty-six in the year 2000....

I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks si...

A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our work...

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...

There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, r...

Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no l...

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see...

A man who under the influence of mental pain or unbearably oppressive suffering sends a bullet throu...

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that ...

I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...