1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

Baize thinks I want his forgiveness, for us to be “buddies.” But friends make me rashy, and I’d trade likability for respectability any day of the week.

Happiness has a habit of erasing decency. That’s why I do my best to practice misery.

Don’t get sappy on me, Apolli. I rely on you for a steady stream of violence and debauchery.

He thinks himself a monster, a villain, as I’m sure he insists to you. But I see, as I’ve always seen, his truth in the gray. His balance in the middle. The bad he does for good reasons.

Aim higher. Do something bigger. Something better. Don’t end up like me.

I neither deserve nor trust joy. It’s the breath before the storm. The gas before the explosion. I’ve lit too many fires to escape life unburned.

There’s a beauty in destruction, an echo of the universe, of how we all began.

Grief did not make me numb; grief made me aware. Life is short. Once we are gone, we are gone forever, so yes, I live free, and I live hard.

Rebirth doesn’t erase the crimes of revenge.