Health, Fitness & Wellness: Mental Health Quotes

Explore thoughtful mental health quotes that emphasize compassion, resilience, and everyday self-care. Selections span themes like stress, anxiety, healing, and mindful habits, offering grounded encouragement for varied experiences and stages of well-being. Use these reflections to pause, reframe, and feel seen. The aim is supportive, not prescriptive: gentle reminders to normalize emotions, celebrate progress, and consider help when needed. Let the words spark calm focus, healthier boundaries, and sustainable routines within broader health, fitness, and wellness goals.

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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

Phil Donahue

"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong"

Stella Adler, Actress

Stella Adler

"I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it"

Dennis Nilsen, Criminal

"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

Juliette Lewis

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

Kurt Cobain

"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

R. D. Laing

"She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery"

Paul R. Ehrlich, Scientist

Paul R. Ehrlich

"I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance"

Luis Miguel, Musician

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"Depression is rage spread thin"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, and I have a couple of drinks and I'm really good fun and then I'm really not fun"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble"

Beth Henley, Playwright

Beth Henley

"Drugs are a bet with your mind"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it"

Richie Sambora, Musician

"Depression is the inability to construct a future"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment"

Grenville Kleiser, Author

"It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Your body hears everything your mind says"

Naomi Judd, Musician

"A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me"

Boy George, Musician

"Despair often breeds disease"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"There's someone in my head, but it's not me"

Pink Floyd, Musician

Pink Floyd

"The lunatic is in my head"

Pink Floyd, Musician

Pink Floyd

"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

Alfred Adler

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