Quotes About Creativity And Mental Illness

#1. Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Deb Caletti

#2. Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

Robert Genn

#3. Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.

Jonathan Kellerman

#4. The human mind is a complicated place ... We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.

Corey Ann Haydu

#5. Your faith today, whether great, small or none controls your destiny tomorrow

Fred Phillips III

#6. Nestled in the valley of darkness, in the deepest depths of depression, are the priceless gems of; creativity, intuition and sensitivity. The trick is learning how to navigate the dark, so these precious gems can be unearthed and their beauty beheld.

Jaeda DeWalt

#7. To whom are you for?
Is a good question to ask.
For one way sows to life,
The other to evil basks.

Kari L. Greenaway

#8. Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

Tim McGraw

#9. I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

Michael Hastings

#10. The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Rajneesh

#11. Each one's no longer conscious
Of the high wall, or the rest:
Since the one enduring fortress,
Is the soldier's iron breast.
If you'd live unconquered,
Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:
Every wife an Amazon bred,
And every child a hero.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12. Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is important right now, at this moment.

Amit Ray

#13. Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

Aidan Gillen

#14. Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

Brad Pitt

#15. Its important to follow your dreams whatever that may be.

Hoodie Allen

#16. The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.

Rebecca McNutt

#17. The strength behind communication is in its quality, not in its quantity. Your talk should be that of quality, not of quantity. You should use small sentences which say a lot. Or you should say a lot in small sentences.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#18. 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

#19. 12
Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

Robert Greene