Mental Illness, Mental Disease, Mental Disorders Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

To punish madmen is as great folly as to sympathize with their condition

I don't believe in psychology.