Clifford W Beers Quotes

#1. Many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#2. To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#3. We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Alan Perlis

#4. I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.

Woody Allen

#5. I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

Neil Jackson

#6. We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

Ben Foster

#7. To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#8. Fang," I said, my voice breaking. "Just live, okay? Live and be okay."
With no warning, I leaned down and kissed his mouth, just like that.
"Ow," he said, touching his split lip, then he and I stared at each other in shock.

James Patterson

#9. Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#10. It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

James Newman

#11. I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.

William Fitzsimmons

#12. After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#13. Of course you don't trust Braith. You don't trust anybody," Ghleanna reminded their brother. "You don't trust the air."
"Because it tends to become unseasonably chilly when I'd prefer it to be warm. It's as if it does it on purpose.

G.A. Aiken

#14. What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

Thelma Drake

#15. I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.

George Gipps

#16. We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Jamie Hyneman

#17. For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable?

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#18. Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

Clifford Whittingham Beers