1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness.

My pillow is as good as any oceanto drown in the nightmare of myself.I swam all the way here from the moon.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intertwined with canvas.The long-drawn-out death within life. The burial-alive of the mind, covering it over with fresh graveyard earth each time it tries to struggle through to the light. In this kind of death you never finish dying.("New York Blues")

a manual for how to build a mentally ill child

if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun, let alone as the author of my fate?

...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]