1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Of course, we don't say words like insane or mad in the progressive 1990s. We say mentally ill. Mad means something different now too. Words are veils and masks, and there's always something more on the other side of them than we want to believe.

But he was left with the all-too-familiar feeling of having been infected by insanity, of being drawn into someone else's insanity.

The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.

Some of us are silent sufferers of a noisy disease.

Insanity? The mental processes of a man with whom one disagrees, are always wrong. Where is the line between wrong mind and sane mind? It is inconceivable that any sane man can radically disagree with one's most sane conclusions.

While binge drinking is a significant issue, it is likely that many members of the public would be surprised by its categorisation as a mental illness, particularly at the milder end."Public confusion caused by differing understandings of the term 'mental illness'.Jorm AF, Reavley NJ.Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2012 May;46(5):397-9. PMID: 22535288

Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it’s painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.

I am but a man attempting to be graceful as I slowly decend into madness.

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.