Mental Quotes


Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. R. D. Laing Mental 133
There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. R. D. Laing Mental 122
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. Marshall McLuhan Mental 96
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. Sigmund Freud Mental 96
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. Sigmund Freud Mental 93
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? Marcel Proust Mental 77
No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. Thomas Szasz Mental 75
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves. Marcel Proust Mental 74
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. Luis Bunuel Mental 67
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. Elias Canetti Mental 54
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Susan Sontag Mental 54
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. Tallulah Bankhead Mental 53
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. Georges Bataille Mental 47
Much of what is labeled mental illness simply reflects our George Vaillant Mental 43
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! Charles Dickens Mental 42
...the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting Alexander McCall Smith Mental 33
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. Sigmund Freud Mental 33
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. Renata Adler Mental 21

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