Mental Discomfort Quotes

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?

There's a scene in 'Medium Cool' in which a young man walks by with a sign that says, 'Sanity, please.' If anything summarizes what I was feeling at that time, it is that sign.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

I don't really like watching my stuff. It makes me feel sick. You imagine you look a certain way in your head, and when it looks even the slightest bit different from what you imagine, you go, 'Rubbish!'

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

People don't like to hear the truth out here cause the truth makes them think.