Carl Jung Quotes

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

... madness entered my veins.

[The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

I've always been a lunatic.

I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have.

I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.