Quotes About Psychology

The myths we create about ourselves are solely there so our brains can survive.

Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?

I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.

One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.

The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true.

That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast.

mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two

My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn't matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings.

Love makes people narcissists: this, too, Flannery now saw.

The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

I think I am mad sometimes.

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

pero cuando llegó el momento de hacerlo, la piel de mi muñeca parecía tan blanca e indefensa que no pude. era como si lo que yo quería matar no estuviera en esa piel ni en el ligero pulso azul que saltaba bajo mi pulgar, sino en alguna parte, más profunda, más secreta y mucho más difícil de alcanzar.

If neurotic is wanting two mutally exclusive things at once and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutally exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

Tudo o que eu já lera sobre gente maluca havia se fixado no meu cérebro, enquanto o resto evaporou.

because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr. Willard had never been sick a day in his life.

Then he would lean back in his chair and match the tips of his fingers together in a little steeple and tell me why I couldn't sleep and why I couldn't read and why I couldn't eat and why everything everyone did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

Se ser neurótico é querer ao mesmo tempo duas coisas mutuamente excludentes, então eu sou uma baita de uma neurótica. Vou ficar correndo de uma coisa mutuamente excludente pra outra pelo resto da minha vida.

Era com si el que jo volia matar no fos pas fins d'aquella pell […], sinó arreu, més endins, més secret, i molt més difícil d'atansar-hi.