1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness
- Author RoAnna Sylver
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I wish bad brain stuff was an actual guy I could punch in the face. PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, hallucinations, anything that gives you hell, could just send'em to me, I'd fight them all. [...] Stuff's a lot harder to fight when they're stuck in your own head.""Yeah... didn't stop me from trying, though.
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- Author Madeleine Kuderick
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Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?(Bad choice.)
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- Author Jonathan Harnisch
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Love me, hate me, hurt me or kill me. I keep fighting.
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- Author Dennis Lehane
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She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.
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- Author Julia Hoban
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Every lineament of the girl's wasted body is a testament to her inner turmoil. Willow can only imagine what kind of pain she must be in to destroy herself that way. She knows there's something ironic in her compassion for the other girl, but she can't help feeling that this utter mortification of the flesh is far worse than anything that she herself has done.
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- Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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He leaned sideways, tipping the chair over, and swung there, reciting:"The hurricane swept by, few of us survived, and many failed to answer friendship's roll call...
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- Author Bruce Springsteen
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It would not all be easy sailing from here on, but modern pharmacological medicine gave my father ten extra years of life and a peace he might never have had. He and my mother got to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. He got to know his grandchildren and we became much closer. He became easier to reach, to know and love.
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- Author Andrew Wilson
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People who fell in love at first sight, rushed home to their parents to tell them the good news and subsequently married were, [Patricia Highsmith] thought, retarded. Rather, a more honest appraisal of the nature of love positions it nearer to the horrors of mental illness. How else could you explain the fact that so many people were prepared to sacrifice the safety and cosiness of their lives for the thrill of a new romance?
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- Author Jeanette Winterson
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To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
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