Mental Illness

Famous quotes containing the words mental illness, mental and/or illness:

    “No further evidence is needed to show that “mental illness” is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”
    —Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

    “see the shaky future grow familiar
    in the pinched, indigenous faces
    of these thoroughbred mental cases,
    twice my age and half my weight.
    We are all old-timers,
    each of us holds a locked razor.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Thou wouldst be great;
    Art not without ambition, but without
    The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly
    That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
    And yet wouldst wrongly win.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)