Quotations about

Mental health

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

—Nora Ephron

You’ve heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It’d go like this: You’d get the boss on the line and say, “Listen, I’ve been sick ever since I started working here, but today I’m well and I won’t be in anymore.” Call in well.

—Tom Robbins

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