#ill

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ill




What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.


Sylvia Plath


#mental-illness #mental-illness

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave.


Michelle M. Pillow


#cat #feeding #food #houseguest #humor

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".


Joanne Greenberg


#mental-illness #mental-illness

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we are still alive.


Pat Barker


#mental-illness #ptsd #trauma #war #mental-illness

My heart keeps begging me for a reason to keep beating, but I'm running out of lies to tell it


Stephanie Ware


#mental-illness

After my first few tastes I was pretty much hooked. I'd have dry spells, months without any or only piddling amounts of grace, but I never forgot about it or stopped wanting it.


Mark Vonnegut


#insane #insanity #mental-illness #mental-illness

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?


Sherley Mondesir-Prescott


#children #children-s-books #humor #humour #illustrated-books

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.


Don Herold


#killing #knowing #not knowing #ourselves #unhappiness

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.


Thomas Hardy


#tess-of-the-d-urbervilles #inspirational

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.


Julien Benda


#died #history #jesus #jesus christ #smile