Depression And Mental Illness Quotes
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Depression And Mental Illness Quotes & Sayings
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The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.
— Anonymous
It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.
— Gail Porter
Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
— Richard Baxter
Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...
— Sylvia Plath
Breathe. Relax. This too shall pass.
— Lee Horbachewski
Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.
— Avijeet Das
If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.
— Tamara Ireland Stone
The first time I saw her,
Everything in my head went quiet. — Neil Hilborn
Everything in my head went quiet. — Neil Hilborn
She can't worry. She can't 'fix.' She can't love.
— Shannon Mullen
Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
— Neel Burton
Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?
— Gillian Marchenko
Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can't pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.
— Suzanne F. Kingsmill
I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable.
— Michelle N. Onuorah
We mistake our mistakes as being damaged.
— Taylor Swift
He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.
— Jasmine Warga
It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we're deprived of something meaningful.
— Laura Anderson Kurk
Show me what you've written, I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.
— Osamu Dazai
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.
— Amy Tan
I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing ...
— Emily Dickinson
Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.
— Roni Askey-Doran
Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in ... does me in. — Casey Renee Kiser
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in ... does me in. — Casey Renee Kiser
It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.
— Keary Taylor
I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.
— Clive Culverhouse
After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.
— Osamu Dazai
Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.
— Frank Zappa
Smiles are a funny thing
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious. — Casey Renee Kiser
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious. — Casey Renee Kiser
I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.
— Lady Gaga
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
— Neel Burton
I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win. — Jasmine Warga
I don't want it to win. — Jasmine Warga
Depression is a phobia of happiness.
— Jack Deveny
I have a plan-to go mad.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I will be stronger than my sadness.
— Jasmine Warga
You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe ..
— Anonymous
What happened? Who killed me?
— Gwyneth Lewis
I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life.
— Clive Culverhouse
I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I do not crave anyone that will fix me. Just someone who will hold my hand while I fix myself.
— Unknown
You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
— Kylie Minogue
It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness.
— Roni Askey-Doran
Can you revive wilted tulips?
— Shannon Mullen
Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though.
— Suzanne Collins
Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
My pillow is as good as any ocean
to drown in the nightmare of myself.
I swam all the way here from the moon. — Casey Renee Kiser
to drown in the nightmare of myself.
I swam all the way here from the moon. — Casey Renee Kiser
It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
— Ruby Wax
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
I will find a way out or make one.
— Robert Peary
When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I have to keep reminding myself
this is not me. It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am. — David Levithan
this is not me. It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am. — David Levithan
I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.
— Fennel Hudson
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
— Stephanie S. Tolan
Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn't make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can't be fixed.
— Ken Wheaton
It's great to be young and insane.
— Michael Keaton
When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention
— Jessica-Lynn Barbour
The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.
— S. Nassir Ghaemi
He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.
— Osamu Dazai
The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
— Allen Ginsberg
A Depressive?'
'Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.' Olive tapped her temple. 'And here.' She touched her heart. — Jessie Burton
'Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.' Olive tapped her temple. 'And here.' She touched her heart. — Jessie Burton
My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
— Shannon Perry
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.
— Dean Koontz
It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
— Robbie Williams
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.
— Nenia Campbell
It is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
— George Howe Colt
So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.
— Herman Melville
Moods should be heard but never danced to.
— Hugh Prather
I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.
— Matt Haig