Being considered or labeled mentally disordered — abnormal, crazy, mad, psychotic, sick, it matters not what variant is used — is the most profoundly discrediting classification that can be imposed on a person today. Mental illness casts the "patient" out of our social order just as surely as heresy cast the "witch" out of medieval society. That, indeed, is the very purpose of stigma terms. —Thomas Szasz More about this quote Tags: society stigma illness mental illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: repair appliances closedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black. —Kelly Robinson More about this quote Tags: pessimism darkness irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered — in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters. —Tracy Thompson More about this quote Tags: memory pain psychology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I dream, I am always ageless. —Elizabeth Coatsworth More about this quote Tags: age dreams agelessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know that there's a whole underground system that you call "dreams," having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar — where you are now, where you've always been. —Alice Munro More about this quote Tags: dreams body systems network Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: dreams painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes, lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream — a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows — is essentially poetry. —Michel Leiris More about this quote Tags: poetry self thoughts dream Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. —Terri Guillemets More about this quote Tags: dreams colors awake spectrum Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that is not read. —Talmud More about this quote Tags: dreams interpretation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living. —Stephen LaBerge More about this quote Tags: dreams research sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them. —Gail Godwin More about this quote Tags: dreams darkness wish Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. —Elias Canetti More about this quote Tags: mind forgetting dreams sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. —John Cheever More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way. —Vivian Mercer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email