Quotes of: Mental-illness Keyword

You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?

I'll Be Here

Yesterday it was a hundred outside. It was fifty degrees, but the air was saturated with average and smog-like intellect.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

If a man were choking, what would I do? Depends. If that man is my boss, I’d strangle him.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

I remember the day coach decided to bench me. We were walking in a botanical garden.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Before grabbing a mythological creature, I’d recommend putting on oven mitts. Especially if you pick up a Phoenix.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

I always carry a spoon in my pocket. You know, just in case it rains.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Goodreads.com could be read Good Reads, or it could be read Goo Dreads. Of course, it couldn’t be the latter, because who dreads goo?

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

Introduction to the Devout Life

Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?

Ill Nature

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

Why don't you go to bed for a bit, Glory?" suggested Robert. "It's been a hell of a war." It's been a hell of a war, he said. I'll never forget it.

I'll Be Seeing You

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

The Return of the King

A child with minimal video and TV exposure... might be more naive about social ills but at the same time more sophisticated in inner direction, self-discipline, and the realities of her actual physical world.

Saving Childhood

Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

To stand up straight and tread the turning mill, To lie flat and know nothing and be still, Are the two trades of man; and which is worse I know not, but I know that both are ill.

More Poems

The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

My Beloved World

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.

The Name of the Star

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

The Plague of Doves

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast