Quotes About Mental

I fear this feeling more than I fear anything, man. More than pain, or my mom dying, or environmental toxicity. Anything.

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all.

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist will blow away your expectation of what late-model literature has to be. Unified by obsessions too eerie not to be real, this gorgeous rearrangement of our century's mental furniture is testimony to a new talent of Burroughs/Coover/Acker scale.

In short that 99% of the head's thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself.

greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus

Ndiawar is bent to an open drawer. 'Your new art therapy person,' he says to Yang. Yang looks Day in the eye. 'Look, man' he says. 'I rotate three-dimension objects. Mentally.

O, full of scorpions is my mind!

O! That way madness lies.

too much sadness hath congealed your blood, And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.

Such stuff as madmen tongue.

Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?

But my behavior was really the result of the illness, which had progressed far enough to produce some of its most famous and sinister hallmarks: confusion, failure of mental focus and lapse of memory.

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible: From Darkness Visible, William Styron It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia, wholly unknown to normal life.

A vida é a mesma coisa que se ficar num hospício de loucos, pensei. Cada um vai circulando, imerso e afogado em suas próprias desilusões, sem que ninguém veja. A pessoa vai abrindo caminhos pelas celas, passando por entre os companheiros atormentados, rumo àquele que parece o único mentalmente são. Era exatamente o que eu estava fazendo agora.

I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

No, no, because she's a mental adolescent, and being romantic, she has a death wish. So, for a brief moment of passion,she completely abandons all responsibilities.

If it wasn't for his anxiety, he'd get no aerobics at all.

Tantrum time, rage, anxiety, depression, genetics, Miltown.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

Como deporte, la mayoría de los entrenadores de atletismo colocaban a las ultramaratones en algún lugar entre las competencias de glotones y el sadomasoquismo recreativo.

Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize that their minds are ill. The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds.

Wars are won in the mind before they can be won on the field.

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.