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#1

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

tags: insanity, mental-illness, sickness, thoughts

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#2

“I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know there's nothing but light when I see you.”
― Shinji Moon

tags: lover-mine

378 likes

#3

“What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.”
― Joseph Roux

tags: friendship, love

347 likes

#4

“To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.”
― Jeanette Winterson

tags: mental-illness, society, world

461 likes

#5

“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

tags: friendship, loyalty, madness, mental-illness, writing

216 likes

#6

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

tags: depression, fear, friendship, human-relationships, life, loneliness, mental-illness, social-anxiety, social-awkwardness, trust

746 likes

#7

“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

tags: depression, self-worth

1910 likes

#8

“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem

709 likes

#9

“Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular at all. We are a fountain of shimmering contradictions, most of us. Beautiful in the concept, if we're lucky, but frequently tedious or regrettable as we flesh ourselves out.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

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#10

“If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.”
― Sun Tzu

205 likes

#11

“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: depression, loneliness

464 likes

#12

“It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.

It made me tired just to think of it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression, sadness

523 likes

#13

“I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
― Frida Kahlo

tags: adversity, encouragement, healing, overcoming, problems, recovery

543 likes

#14

“You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

tags: recovery

349 likes

#15

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

39863 likes

#16

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, passion, poetry, sonnet-xi

546 likes

#17

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

8846 likes

#18

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

tags: death, love

5570 likes

#19

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: forgetting, hope, love, pain, suffering, waiting

5578 likes

#20

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: love, obsession, sleep

4182 likes

#21

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: love, poetry

4002 likes

#22

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

4198 likes

#23

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”
― Shana Abe

tags: love, romance

8588 likes

#24

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

tags: love, poem, relationships, romance

3161 likes

#25

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women

2520 likes

#26

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

tags: depressed, depression, fear, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, recovery, recovery-quotes, shame, stigma, stigmatized, survivors

615 likes

#27

“There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think.”
― Minrose Gwin

tags: bonding, friendship, mental-illness, wishing-for-snow

16 likes

#28

“None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

tags: broken, broken-person, fix, heal, healing, health, human, mental-health, mental-illness, ourselves, person, repair

19 likes

#29

“I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.”
― Jonathan Harnisch

tags: depression, depression-quotes, depression-recovery, fighting-mad, mental-health, mental-health-quotes, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, mental-illness-stigma, optimism, optimism-quotes, optimist, optimistic, optimistic-quotes, ptsd, ptsd-quotes, recovery, schizophrenia

40 likes

#30

“Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!”
― Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace

tags: children, coping, family, loss, memories, mental-illness, neglect, pain

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