Mental illness - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that you used to feel all right. You forget what it means to feel all right because you feel like shit all of the time, and you can't remember what it was like before. — Marya Hornbacher Wasted: A Memoir...

Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a documentary filmmaker and then a painter and then a tiny-ceramic-figure maker. None...

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

They've still got their problems, just like all of us. They're still sick men in lots of ways. But at least there's that: they are sick men now. No more rabbits, Mack. Maybe they can be well men...

We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind.

Nobody complains about all the fog. I know why, now: as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That's what McMurphy can't understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us...

I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized {this came years after the first realization} that another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. — Philip K. Dick CHOOSE

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. — Philip K. Dick CHOOSE

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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