Psychological Suffering Quotes

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

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.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

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.

The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.

The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

When you cry out in pain from a broken wrist, no one questions it. You just go to the hospital and take the necessary steps. Mental illness is just as real, even if it can't be seen.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.