Top 1200 Mentally Ill Quotes & Sayings

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does.

Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

If a kid is born into a tough situation with no means of dealing with it, you end up with kids who are mentally ill and have no way of reaching out.

You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

It seems like the requirements for my characters are that I have to be either mentally ill or disturbed in some way, or I have to be physically beaten. It's in my contract.

We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.

My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

In this country, we've gotten away from institutionalizing and we've moved toward assimilating and drugging the mentally ill.

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant, you're mentally ill. If you're so far right that you actually believe that somebody who doesn't have a job and is not a citizen deserves to have their heart cut out and sold on eBay, and you get to keep 80 percent of the profit - you're mentally ill.

Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.

The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

I'm wary when legislators say the solution to school shootings is mental health care, because it suggests that people who are mentally ill are violent, and that's just not true.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

I wanted to write about my disorders for people like my husband or mother who don't suffer but have saved people. Mentally ill people don't have a choice in who they are. But those that stand by the mentally ill make an enormous difference. Even when I'm healthy enough to take care of myself I face constant battles, especially with insurance companies.

Everyone agrees that there are individuals who are seriously mentally ill and should not have guns.

During the 10 years I worked as a prosecutor, I always struggled with what to do with someone who was clearly mentally ill and committed a horrific crime.

Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

I support common-sense measures like universal background checks to prevent guns from falling into the hands of criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.

We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?

There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerously mentally ill.