Madness Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
American writer, physician It is reasonable conversation which mostly frightens us his in a madman.
Anatole France (1844-1924) French author
We must remember that every “mental” symptom is a veiled cry of anguish. Against what? Against oppression, or what the patient experiences as oppression. The oppressed speak a million tongues. . . .
Thomas Szasz (b. 1920) American psychiarist
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R. D. Laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
R. D. Laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz (b. 1920) American psychiatrist
If a patient is poor he is committed to a public hospital as a “psychotic.” If he can afford a sanatorium, the diagnosis is “neurasthenia.” If he is wealthy enough to be in his own home under the constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply “an indisposed eccentric.”
Pierre Janet (1859-1947) French physician, psychologist
