Sharon > Sharon's Quotes

Showing 1-13 of 13

like

#1

“I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: mental-illness

514 likes

like

#2

“Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it with something that is completely opposite of who and what you truly are. Because my bipolar went untreated for so long, I spent many years looking in the mirror and seeing a person I did not recognize or understand. Not only did bipolar rob me of my sanity, but it robbed me of my ability to see beyond the space it dictated me to look. I no longer could tell reality from fantasy, and I walked in a world no longer my own.”
― Alyssa Reyans, Letters from a Bipolar Mother

tags: bipolar, bipolar-disorder, bipolar-mother, depression, insanity, mental-health, mental-illness, mood-disorder

343 likes

like

#3

“Smiles are a funny thing
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck

tags: depression, humor, laughter, life, mental-illness, smile

8 likes

like

#4

“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled, violently hosed, wrapped in wet canvas, confined to “mummy bags”, subjected to insulin-induced hypoglycemic comas, forced into seizures with massive doses of the stimulant Metrazol, injected with camphor, drugged into three-week comas with barbiturates and tranquilizers, involuntarily sterilized, and surgically mutilated. Rape by hospital staff was common, as was humiliation and verbal abuse. One reporter noted that a state hospital patient had been restrained for so long that his skin was beginning to grow around the leather straps.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth

tags: abuse, institutionalization, mental-hospitals, mental-illness, pain, patients, tortures

2 likes

like

#5

“While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-kind, building-people-up, commandments, communicate, conflict, dogma, end-it-with-talking, facebook, forgive, god, gospel, hidden-agendas, insecure, jilted, love-everyone, low-self-esteem, making-a-point, mental-illness, move-on, neighbors, novels, obviousness, out-there, over-the-top, piety, pious, practice-what-you-preach, preaching, privacy, problems, reach-out, relationships, relentless, religion, religions, ridiculous, rules, self-righteousness, silly, slighted, talk, tearing-people-down, upfront, worthless

27 likes

like

#6

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: abortion, obvious, right-to-life

897 likes

like

#7

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

666 likes

like

#8

“I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.”
― Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Throws a Wedding

tags: abortion, choice, life

107 likes

like

#9

“There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.”
― José N. Harris

tags: liars, lies, lying, truth

685 likes

like

#10

“When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.”
― Cheryl Hughes

tags: cheating, integrity, lying

378 likes

like

#11

“Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Upon the Midnight Clear

tags: honesty, lying

183 likes

like

#12

“Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: lying, mothers

69 likes

like

#13

“There is nothing worse for the lying soul than the mirror of reality.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: happiness, life, lying, mirror, reality, soul, success

57 likes

All Quotes

Tags From Sharon’s Quotes

mental-illness
bipolar
bipolar-disorder
bipolar-mother
depression
insanity
mental-health
mood-disorder
humor
laughter
life
smile
abuse
institutionalization
mental-hospitals
pain
patients
tortures
be-kind
building-people-up
commandments
communicate
conflict
dogma
end-it-with-talking
facebook
forgive
god
gospel
hidden-agendas
insecure
jilted
love-everyone
low-self-esteem
making-a-point
move-on
neighbors
novels
obviousness
out-there
over-the-top
piety
pious
practice-what-you-preach
preaching
privacy
problems
reach-out
relationships
relentless
religion
religions
ridiculous
rules
self-righteousness
silly
slighted
talk
tearing-people-down
upfront
worthless
abortion
obvious
right-to-life
choice
liars
lies
lying
truth
cheating
integrity
honesty
mothers
happiness
mirror
reality
soul
success