Samuel Butler

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Not only is it a part of my life, I need to bring awareness to the severity of Lyme disease.

It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.

There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I feel like there’s this glamour… where the woman who has a psychological illness is in fur, laid out on a chaise. Whereas in reality, a woman with mental illness or… is struggling with her psychological wellbeing is often in sweats and in a T-shirt that used to belong to her dad and is covered in food bits.

I think it’s important for us to have open conversations about mental health, especially with me being black, because we’ve never had therapists in the black community, we’ve never taken medication. I think it was good that when I had my first complete blackout at age 5, my mom didn’t fully medicate me, because I might not have fully been Ye.

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody’s told you. It’s just a dumb trip, which I can’t condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one’s own personal, social, emotional reasons. It’s something to be avoided if one can help it.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes.

I use the world as my therapy – as my therapist.

Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.