Quotes About Mental Instability

#1. And while a bald head and a looped ribbon were seen as badges of courage and hope, her reluctant vocabulary and vanishing memories advertised mental instability and impending insanity. Those with cancer could expect to be supported by their community. Alice expected to be an outcast.

Lisa Genova

#2. I definitely thought about touching it to satisfy my curiosity, but luckily for me my mental instability kicked in and I left it alone.

Mark Tufo

#3. The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

Frances Beinecke

#4. We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

Dorianne Laux

#5. Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.

Philippe Aries

#6. ...it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told you we all are a little crazy?

Shyreen Tyler

#7. Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

T.C. Boyle

#8. No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that.

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

#9. But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

Dominique De Menil

#10. they propound mathematical theorems in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds.

C.S. Lewis

#11. It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

Vanna Bonta

#12. While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

C.S. Lewis

#13. We were forever one earthquake away from losing it all.

Alison Singh Gee

#14. There was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

Marcel Proust

#15. Oh, so you're untouchable, huh, Delilah? You and your fucked-up relationship with your mother and everyone else in your life? Great. Does getting pissed at me make it better? does it fix ANYTHING?"
"You! Can't! Fix! Me!

Sarah Ockler

#16. It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative
which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Sylvia Plath

#17. I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

Vivienne Westwood

#18. Miracles come in all shapes and sizes. So, try not to have particular conditions, because doing so may very well prevent you from recognizing the biggest ones.

Charles F. Glassman

#19. $1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

Tim Ferriss

#20. If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

James Baker

#21. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Thomas Jefferson