Orson Scott Card Quotes on Mental health

9 quotes

  1. No matter what they say they all intend to live Except the suicides? They intended to live, too. Suicide is a desperate attempt to get rid of unbearable agony.

  2. Maybe I took the first step toward healing him

  3. What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.

  4. Solitary isn't necessarily lonely

  5. It was like he attacked sleep, a frontal assault, took it by the throat and forced it to yield him the rest he needed. Rest, but no peace

  6. In contemporary American culture, going to the psychiatrist means you're crazy. But going to a therapist means you're rich and stylishly uptight. I hate it when you talk about 'contemporary American culture' this and 'contemporary American culture' that.

  7. Wishes are a waste of time... They only make you unhappy

  8. I wasn't crazy to love her was I? ...we're all crazy to love anybody. But it drives us even crazier if we don't

  9. Whenever I hear you saying, rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!

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