1,815 Quotes About Mental-illness

I sigh. He’s a curious one. You know what they say about curiosity. It killed the cat and everyone else. Wait, that’s me.

Maybe you’re not what you want to be. Maybe you’re something better.

We perpetuate our own nightmares.

You don’t have time. You make time. Carve out seconds between schedules. Whittle pockets of routine. Learn while you drive. Sing while you shower. Write while you shit. A paragraph each bathroom break makes a page a day makes a book a year. So what the fuck are you waiting for? GO OUT THERE, AND DO IT.

I’m used to edges, not curves. Breaches, not blessings. There’s no place for me in happily ever after.

Endings are paradoxes; happy endings are oxymorons. Ra agrees. That’s why he vivisects my mind with the scalpel of his hatred. I agree, too. That’s why I let him.

You were sweet when it was easier to be sour, strong when it was easier to be weak.

We don’t mention the worsening episodes, the ticking bomb, the inevitability of my fate, whatever that fate may be. The clock continues, with or without my consent.

Necessity makes saints of us all.