Susanna Kaysen Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.
One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.
When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.
The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection.
I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.
I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.
This behavior may ... counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted
One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but I took it as a compliment.
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
How the fuck else am I going to get any attention in this place?
Lisa always called the hospital 'this place.
Lisa always called the hospital 'this place.
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.
That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.
My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.
The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I.
Imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless.
Once you start parsing a face, it's a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots.
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.
They were all seventeen and miserable, just like me. They didn't have time to wonder why I was a little more miserable than most.
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons that 'animates' us.
Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back ... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind.
It's a mean world," she'd say. She was usually glad enough to be back. "There's nobody to take care of you out there.
It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of
warm earth. Suicide weather.
warm earth. Suicide weather.