Quotes About Mental

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die.

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Meu querido, o bilhete começa, tenho certeza de que vou enlouquecer de novo. Não podemos passar por mais uma daquelas crises terríveis [...]

A string of thoughts runs through my head like a song I can't get rid of, over and over.

Although I'm tired, and it feels like years since I had a good night's rest, I can't bring myself to fall asleep. It's like I've forgotten how.

We are as tired of each other's company as we are of the cold monotony of the black night and of the unpalatable sameness of our food. Physically, mentally, and perhaps morally, then, we are depressed, and from my past experience... I know that this depression will increase.

You think that the mental anguish you are experiencing is a permanent condition, but for the vast majority of people it is only a temporary state. (But what if I'm special? What if I'm in the minority?)

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

There is a story about a prisoner at Alcatraz who spent his nights in solitary confinement dropping a button on the floor then trying to find it again in the dark. Each night, in this manner, he passed the hours until dawn. I do not have a button. In all other respects, my nights are the same.

In 1949, Claude Lévi-Strauss stated in a key essay that the shaman, far from being mentally ill, was in fact a kind of psychotherapist—the difference being that the psychoanalyst listens, whereas the shaman speaks.

One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.

Sometimes I do a little mental skipping, just to shake things up in my mind.

T]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. Mental life is seen from an intersubjective perspective. Although this perspective has transformed both our theory and our practice in important ways, such transformations create new problems. A theory in which the individual subject no longer reigns absolute must confront the difficulty each subject has in recognizing the other as an equivalent center of experience…

Yet despite all these things we know to be true- despite the preponderance of evidence showing the mental and emotional distress people demonstrate in violent and harassing environments- we still have no name for what happens to women living in a culture that hates them.

Mental health is achieved if man develops into full maturity according to the characteristics and laws of human nature. Mental illness consists in the failure of such development.

Terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks; - but it kills, if a man thinks about it.

we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

Habit is the explanation of why we seem to forget things so quickly.

I soon found out this much:--terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;--but it kills, if a man thinks about it.