Quotes About Mental

His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.

This was a pain that did not touch the body, a pain that did not race along the nerve paths, a pain that filled the mind so completely and so shatteringly that not even the smallest part of you was free to think or plan or meditate. The pain was you, and you were the pain. There was nothing to dissociate from, no cool sanctum of thought where you might retreat. (from The Glass Flower)

The little shards of sleep that they allowed her turned into razors, slicing at her wits.

My mind is my weapon.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

They say memory is the first thing to go. The second thing to go is memory.

The aim of therapy is to convert neurotic suffering into ordinary human misery.

Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that's how every ideology functions.

Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.

It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

To want to forget something is to think of it.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

The minds of people are so cluttered up with every-day living these days that they don't, or won't, take time out for a little prayer-for mental cleansing, just as they take a bath for physical, outer cleansing. Both are necessary.

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

Retirement: statutory senility.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.