Illnesss Quotes & Sayings

Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind? — V.S. Naipaul

Most people who know Cuba think Raul [Castro] would like to make more changes but has not done so yet because his brother, who is ideologically opposed to them, is still alive. What he will do when Fidel dies remains to be seen. — Mark Falcoff

I don't recommend emulating the behavior of any of the characters contained within. They're all quite mad.
The truth is, I have no idea what I'm talking about.
Except about love. We all know a little about that. Or nothing at all. In any case, we're all on equal footing." (Author's Note) — Lev A.C. Rosen

Rosie loved Tom. Rosie had always loved Tom and, although she was unable to measure "always" in terms of years and months, this made perfect sense to her. Their love was not constrained by the mortal bonds of time; it was eternal, ageless and ancient beyond all recollection and record. — Tanya Bullock

Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. — Gillian Flynn

I like how you shake
Off years of ordinary
Cover me with extraordinary
Ways of seeing I never saw before
But now I do — Cath Crowley

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good - the atavism of an older ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind, — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations. — Ken Livingstone

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics. — John Mason Brown

An experience like that changes your perspective on life and on the world — Mark Shuttleworth

Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's the slow dawning pain that comes with sanity - the realization of illnesss, the humiliating scenes, the blown money and friendships and confidence. Depression seems almost inevitable. The pendulum swings back from transcendence in shards, a bloody, dangerous mess. Crazy high is better than crazy low. So we gamble, dump the pills, and stick it to the control freaks and doctors. They don't understand, we say. They just don't get it. They'll never be artists. — David Lovelace

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas. — Thomas Perry

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work — David Hume

But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion. — Haruki Murakami