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Mental Illness Quotes - Page 2

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

People get really irritated by mental illness.

"Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

"The Myth of Mental Illness" by Thomas Szasz in "American Psycholigist", Volume 15 (pp. 113-118), psychclassics.yorku.ca. 1960.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of Power”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.791, Open Road Media

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.139, Bantam

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.391, University of Michigan Press

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

"Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.