Mental Illness

Famous quotes containing the words mental and/or illness:

“The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)