1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

To think too much is a disease.

Every age gets the lunatics it deserves.

But nobody writes fairy talesabout the ugly and poemsare not there for the brokenand I will never find myselfin the words of a hymnnor will any whispered prayerever say my name(which name, which meam I looking for?)because I am shoutingat a cross splintered into piecesby my angry fists, and cryingat the stained glass fallinglike killing rain around me.

I cut off all my hair, cut awayat the soft curves of my clothinguntil I have edges once again,using my body like broken glassto slice at the world around me.I have to take something back,because I have nothing more to give.Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

If you want to see the stars, you must be willing to travel through the dark.

My story is not a sad story; it's a real one. It's a story about a girl who fought through a storm she thought would never end.

They told me to pursue acting, and I replied, "I live with mental illness. I've been an actress my whole life.

I'm too tired to fight him off. Instead, I let him enfold me in a beguilingly soft, dark blanket of misery, and cry and cry and cry until my head is heavy and my throat is sore and my eyes swell so that the city lights blur and merge into a beautiful, chaotic mess.