A child does not thrive on what he is prevented from doing, but on what he actually does. —Marcelene Cox More about this quote Tags: children control thriving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: change youth experimentation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Tags: fear angels devils flight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster. —Ryūnosuke Akutagawa More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: fear kindness schizophrenia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You wanted to get well. . . . Asked your greatest wish in life, you would have replied at once — sanity. . . . In the world outside, people longed desperately to be millionaires, movie actors, club presidents. . . . But nowhere, nowhere save the madhouse, did mental health get its share of prayers. —Mary Jane Ward More about this quote Tags: life health mental health sanity prayers millionaires Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our schizophrenic patient is actually experiencing inadvertently that same beatific ocean deep which the yogi and saint are ever striving to enjoy: except that, whereas they are swimming in it, he is drowning. —Joseph Campbell More about this quote Tags: spirituality schizophrenia stability drowning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you are insane, you are busy being insane — all the time. . . . When I was crazy, that was all I was. —Sylvia Plath More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why must every literary examination of Robert Lowell, of John Berryman, of Anne Sexton, of Jean Stafford, of so many writers and artists, keep perpetuating the notion that their individual pieces of genius were the result of madness? While it may be true that a great deal of art finds its inspirational wellspring in sorrow, let's not kid ourselves about how much time each of those people wasted and lost by being mired in misery. —Elizabeth Wurtzel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. —R.D. Laing More about this quote Tags: madness breakthrough Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hate to advocate drugs, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. —Hunter S. Thompson More about this quote Tags: hate insanity violence drugs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived. —Philip Ó Ceallaigh More about this quote Tags: soul sanity violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. . . . I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. —John Lennon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more [combat] missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. —Joseph Heller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it. —Nellie Bly (pen name of journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran, who faked insanity to research a mental institution) More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email