Quotes About Mental

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last. And understanding it seemed to give him a sort of quiet peace, a sense of having spread all the cards on his mental table, examined them, and settled conclusively on the desired hand.

Everything is mental

It's at times like this I hate the brain. It always builds more barriers than it can topple.

Stay sane inside insanity.

voices or cell phone—choose your schizophrenia.

Public judgment is nothing but shared schizophrenia

Violent actors act violently not because they are mentally ill or come from violent subcultures or are brain damaged or have low self-esteem but because they have different phantom communities from the rest of us. That difference is the reason they attach different, violent meanings to their social experiences.

it is possible to argue that some people are violent and mentally ill, but it is no longer defensible to argue that people are violent because they are mentally ill.

The innocuous mental belief systems of much religion are probably the major cause of atheism in the world today, because people see that they have not generally created people who are more strong, caring, or creative than other groups—and often a lot worse.

I've got Abba in my head," she told him. "Make them go away.

Napping is often seen as a form of laziness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hundreds of experiments have demonstrated the enormous benefits associated with even the shortest of sleeps, and so it is vital that you make napping part of your daily routine.

My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.

I wish I could be an example to you... I knew that I had conquered him, had rid myself of him mentally and emotionally; but I wanted to be sure. You are not an example to me; you could never be, I spat at him. You're a warning.

Hello, Paranoia, My Old Friend

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.

it's hard to be spiritually strong and mentally alert when you are emotionally stressed or physically fatigued.

Doll-less, invisible friend-less, finally more comfortable in fear than in gladness, Astrid began to live in her head. Or rather inside a small tunnel - a hole - in her head, through which she watched everything gaily depart. She nodded this head and pretended to listen. 'Bye-bye,' she would hear from within.

While obsession with one's personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied

My thoughts were so fast that I couldn't remember the beginning of a sentence halfway through.

No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods.

For as long as I can remember, I was frighteningly, although often wonderfully, beholden to moods.

For someone with my cast of mind and mood, medication is an integral element of this wall: without it, I would be constantly beholden to the crushing movements of a mental sea; I would, unquestionably, be dead or insane.