Awareness Quotes

"Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes to plan in this accursed world."

- Madara Uchiha

"In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?"

- Masashi Kishimoto

"We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?"

- Tipper Gore

"People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement."

- Marsha Linehan

"If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling."

- Tamara Ireland Stone

"Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too."

- John Green

"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say, “My tooth is aching” than to say, “My heart is broken.”"

- C.S. Lewis

"I think it’s really important to take the stigma away from mental health… My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth?"

- Kerry Washington

"We, as a culture, have not fully acknowledged how much help is needed. The only real shame is on us for not being willing to speak openly. For continuing to deny that mental health is related to our overall health. We need to start talking, and we need to start now."

- Oprah Winfrey

"We need so much more openness, transparency and understanding that it’s OK to talk about depression as an illness. It’s not a weakness. It’s not a moral shortcoming. It’s not something people brought on themselves."

- John F. Greden

"No one would ever tell a cancer patient to ‘just get over it.’ Why people think they can tell those with a mental illness as much is baffling."

- Sara Ella, Coral

"Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression."

- Jasmine Warga

"Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting. My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better? Have you tried not being sad, not being sick? Have you tried being more like me? Have you tried shutting up? Yes, I have tried. Yes, I am still trying, and yes, I am still sick. Sometimes monsters are invisible, and sometimes demons attack you from the inside. Just because you cannot see the claws and the teeth does not mean they aren’t ripping through me. Pain does not need to be seen to be felt. Telling me there is no problem won’t solve the problem. This is not how miracles are born. This is not how sickness works."

- Emm Roy

"When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you."

- Marya Hornbacher

"If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief."

- Brené Brown

"Loneliness will come and go, quite often as it chooses, over the course of human life."

- Sam Carr

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

- Tom Stoppard

"The emotions, responsibilities – and the pain – of motherhood are unique to each of us with children. Ask any woman, and she will have her own story to tell."

- Fiona Barton

"It's like people focus on looking happy more than being happy."

- Rod Wave

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

- William Shakespeare

"The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch"

- William Shakespeare

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

- William Shakespeare

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

- William Shakespeare

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

- William Shakespeare

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

- William Shakespeare

"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."

- William Shakespeare

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

- William Shakespeare

"In time we hate that which we often fear."

- William Shakespeare

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

- William Shakespeare

"The MCAT is hard and the MCAT is important"