Susanna Kaysen Quotes About Illness

Quotes about: Illness

• ... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Depression, Crazy, Safe

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.104, Vintage

• Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Communication, Two, Problem

• Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Character, Wrinkles, Hair

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Mar 08, 2016

• Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Mean, Talking, Nuts

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.75, Vintage

• Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells to lurk like a virus waiting for the next opportunity? Out into the ether of the world to wait for the circumstances that would provoke its reappearance? Endogenous or exogenous, nature or nurture - it's the great mystery of mental illness.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Opportunity, Cells, Waiting

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.78, Vintage

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