Mentall Illness Quotes & Sayings

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe. — Jean-Dominique Bauby

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea. — Rumi

When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I began keeping diaries after they locked Rosemary up at Butler and I went to live with Aunt Elaine in Cranston until I was eighteen, but even the diaries can't be trusted. For instance, there's a series of entries describing a trip to New Brunswick that I'm pretty sure I never took. It used to scare me, those recollections of things that never took place, but I've gotten used to it. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

People who know other people's secrets can't afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths. — Patricia Briggs

Any punishment is an insult to the crime — Nathan Filer

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. — Shannon L. Alder

She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak, I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks. — Nirvana

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now. — James Purdy

Given the obstacles to merging these fragile and diverse forms of storytelling into a single tale, it is, paradoxically, by venturing in the opposite direction -- by listening for the silences between accounts; by discovering what each genre of recordkeeping cannot tell us -- that we can capture most fully the human struggle to understand our elusive past. What this past asks of us in return is a willingness to recount all our stories -- our darkest tales as well as our most inspiring ones -- and to ponder those stories that violence has silenced forever. For until we recognize our shared capacity for inhumanity, how can we ever hope to tell stories of our mutual humanity? — Karl Jacoby

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. — Suzanne Farrell

I get happy and I get sad,
just like anybody else
but they call this a disorder. — Casey Renee Kiser

Who does that - kisses a woman's hand? No one I've ever met, that's for damn sure. — Emma Chase

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. — G.K. Chesterton

My full name's Ed Kennedy. I'm nineteen. I'm an underage cab driver. I'm typical of many of the young men you see in this suburban outpost of the city
not a whole lot of prospects or possibility. That aside, I read more books than I should, and I'm decidedly crap at sex and doing my taxes. Nice to meet you. — Markus Zusak