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Mental-health Quotes


"Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine."


"Yes I'm Bipolar but I'm as normal as you except the times when my mind thinks like two."


"But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves."


"I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life."


"People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it."


"It is horrible being all alone."


"When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony."


"There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.""They kill themselves, you mean?" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid."Indeed.""Does it work? Are they happier dead?""Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean."


"You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone."



"I am too sick to lay downthe sidewalks frighten methe whole damned city frightens me,what I will becomewhat I have becomefrightens me."


"But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it."


"It almost occurred; It almost got hold of my purity, Just as it headed for the war within my being,I fed it a light so bright; It thought it almost had control of me. Depression is just a dis-ease, So; Let your mind be free."


"Make the tough choice, decide you will not be a garbage ground for other people's trash. Protect your mind."


"When you're having a depressive surge painful memories can start to emerge."


"When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in."


"I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?"


"Seriously, why aren't you on drugs?" Cath walked past her out of the room."Are you a licensed psychiatrist? Or do you just play one on TV?""I'm on drugs," Reagan said. "They're a beautiful thing."


"Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind."


"To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands."



"It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore."


"Keep negative people long meters away from you; their presence is a threat to your high self-esteem! Job, the man of God kept his wife afar before he could make it again!"


"The strength of your mind determines the quality of your life."


"Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray."


"Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane."


"Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to "protect you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary."



"Some people never go crazy. Me, sometimes I'll lie down behind the couch for 3 or 4 days. They'll find me there. It's Cherub, they'll say, and they pour wine down my throat rub my chest sprinkle me with oils. Then, I'll rise with a roar, rant, rage - curse them and the universe as I send them scattering over the lawn. I'll feel much better, sit down to toast and eggs, hum a little tune, Suddenly become as lovable as a pink overfed whale. Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."


"We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die."


"If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey."


"I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it."


"Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you."
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