Juliette Lewis
Actress, Producer
"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die."
Mental Illness quotes
Mental Illness
111 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Brian Wilson
Musician
"Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive."
Irving Stone
Author
"I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself."
Robbie Williams
Singer, Songwriter
"I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse."
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"Love is a grave mental illness."
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"One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness."
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"One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people."
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"The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse."
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"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
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"We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?"
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"Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure"
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"I have a plan-to go mad."
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"With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all."
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"I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless."
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"Tis a mad world, my masters."
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"Any breakdown is a breakthrough."
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"The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?"
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"As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers."
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"I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing."
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"I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two."
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"Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence."
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"It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman."
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"I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb."
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"I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it."
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