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Mental Illness Quotes - Page 5

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

Jacki Weaver
Becoming, Mental Illness, Silver
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness

Glenn Close
Thinking, Vocabulary, Mental Illness

... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

George Howe Colt
Depression, Beautiful, Mental Illness
George Howe Colt (2006). “November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

Emily Dickinson
Depression, Fall, Mental Illness

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

David Mitchell
Errors, Mental Illness, Illness
David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.197, Random House Group

So, because I have a mental illness I should disappear and hide? Ever since I went into hospital, all I have heard and read about is people telling me what they think I should do.

Charlotte Dawson
Thinking, People, Mental Illness

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

Brian Lindstrom
Thinking, People, Mental Illness
Source: therumpus.net

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

Brian Lindstrom
Mental Illness, Film, Heavy
Source: therumpus.net

I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.

Anne Sexton
Cutting, Two, Mental Illness
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

Andrew Bird
Song, Kind, Mental Illness
Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Alexander Pope
Mind, Mental Illness, Finest
Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.311

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