Top 28 Quotes About Being Mentally Ill
#1. Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything ... I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It's better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
Carrie Fisher
#2. I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
Carrie Fisher
#3. Mental illness is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.
Elyn R. Saks
#4. I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.
Patty Duke
#5. I will meet you in the next three days. In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every human being will die. I am not God, I am not son of God, I am Christ eternal.
Mehmet Ali Agca
#6. He had never been involved with the mentally ill before, but he now felt more than ever that there should be strong international laws against them being too good-looking.
Lorrie Moore
#7. What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Rumi
#8. People meet when they need to meet. I have just saved myself from myself.
Paulo Coelho
#9. When he kissed me, it was with the desperation of a man who is trying to save himself.
Jodi Picoult
#10. The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.
Mark Vonnegut
#11. Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks." (On the "benchmarks" used by George W. Bush
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#12. The child doesn't just live in his environment, it becomes a part of him.
Paula Polk Lillard
#13. I think that the genes for being an artist and mentally ill aren't just related, they are the same gene, but try telling that to a bill collector. We
Neil Hilborn
#14. and no, no, I didn't think it was a coincidence SS was short for sorority sister.
Nicole Williams
#15. If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.
Primo Levi
#16. I returned to my rooms, enraged and no further forward. Yesterday, I had believed that Denis murdered Horne, but after meeting him, I changed my conclusion.
Ashley Gardner
#17. They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.
Mac Miller
#18. Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill
Jessie Bernard
#19. On every stem, on every leaf, ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#20. I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.
Mike DeWine
#21. To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.
Charles R. Swindoll
#23. When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
Hanya Yanagihara
#24. Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
Nick Hanauer
#25. The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill ... Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick.
Ronald Goldman
#26. Walt's face lit up. "Sadie, Ptah was more than the craftsman god, right? Didn't they call him the God of Opening?"
"Um ... Possibly."
"I thought you taught us that. Or maybe it was Carter."
"Boring bit of information? Probably Carter.
Rick Riordan
#28. I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
Samantha Morton
