Mental Illness

Famous quotes containing the words mental and/or illness:

    “She, her head back, waited
    Barbarous the stalking tide;
    Her, nor balked nor sated
    But plunged into the wide
    Area of mental ire,
    Lay at her wandering side.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)