Illness/mental

Famous quotes containing the words illness and/or mental:

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

“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)