Mental Ward Quotes

#1. I don't need any bonus material to throw me over the edge later.
Or don a flight of stairs, under a bus, and straight back to the mental ward.

Myra McEntire

#2. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

John Kennedy Toole

#3. Modern dances always seem to me so vulgar. So much hopping about; like a scene from a mental ward!

Sarah Waters

#4. I just don't want to have more people to lose. It sounds mental, but I'd rather be alone than be devastated when things don't work out and he leaves. Or something horrible happens and I lose him entirely.

H.M. Ward

#5. But that was the beauty of inner thoughts. No one had to know your weaknesses. And once you'd finished dwelling on them, you could toss them into the mental trash bin they belonged in.

J.R. Ward

#6. Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

Louis L'Amour

#7. out of sight, out of mind, right? That motto is just a
temporary fix - until you're forced to come face to face with what you've been running from. That's when
the mental walls you've built to hide behind come crashing down in one hard blow.

Penelope Ward

#8. The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.

Andrei Codrescu

#9. If the mind fits, shrink it.

Brian Spellman

#10. Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

Steve Martin

#11. When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?

Ted Dekker

#12. I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If I'm not shooting well, I'll try to be an asset in other ways-like defense, passing, rebounding, and hustle.

Rick Barry

#13. So be careful when you bend over.

Charles Bukowski

#14. If you think about it, the guy who brought out the concept of school, hadn't been to school himself!

Shubham Choudhary

#15. I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

Ned Vizzini

#16. Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first ...

Tanya R. Liverman

#17. It just begged the question: If it took so long for one of the best hospitals in the world to get to this step, how many other people were going untreated, diagnosed with a mental illness or condemned to a life in a nursing home or a psychiatric ward?

Susannah Cahalan

#18. I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.

Jenni Schaefer

#19. On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering

Frank X. Barron

#20. Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells ...

Shannon Celebi

#21. Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

Mary Jane Ward

#22. Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it's just cheap.

Jim Connolly

#23. You're mental. I always knew you were.

Rachel Ward

#24. Instead of becoming depressed that I was in the locked ward of a mental hospital, I pretended I was playing a role in a movie, possibly on my way to an Emmy.

Augusten Burroughs