Joanne Greenberg

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

— Joanne Greenberg

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

— Joanne Greenberg

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

— Joanne Greenberg

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

— Joanne Greenberg

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

— Joanne Greenberg

I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.

— Joanne Greenberg

“It suffered and died in translation.”

— Joanne Greenberg

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?

— Joanne Greenberg

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

— Joanne Greenberg

I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as…

— Joanne Greenberg

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and…

— Joanne Greenberg

“He sat in another season - spring time, maybe - beneath a separate sun whose rays ended at the periphery of her…

— Joanne Greenberg

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

— Joanne Greenberg

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

— Joanne Greenberg

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

— Joanne Greenberg

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

— Joanne Greenberg

“And what does that signify to you?" he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would…

— Joanne Greenberg

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This…

— Joanne Greenberg

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will,…

— Joanne Greenberg

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only…

— Joanne Greenberg

“Among equals gratitude is reciprocal; her gratitude to these Titans, who called themselves average and were unaware of their own tremendous strength…

— Joanne Greenberg

“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling…

— Joanne Greenberg

“The sick are all so afraid of their own uncontrollable power! Somehow they cannot believe that they are only people, holding only…

— Joanne Greenberg

Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever…

— Joanne Greenberg

I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as…

— Joanne Greenberg

“Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares…

— Joanne Greenberg

“Can you read my thoughts?" she asked them. "Are you talking to me?" Lee said. "To all of you. Can you read…

— Joanne Greenberg

I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he…

— Joanne Greenberg

...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert,…

— Joanne Greenberg

“Do you know why you’re here?' the doctor said. Clumsiness. Clumsiness is the first and then we have a list: lazy, wayward,…

— Joanne Greenberg

And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before…

— Joanne Greenberg

“They had shared much of their pasts, most of their fears, and all of their tenuous and fragile hopes, but Deborah had…

— Joanne Greenberg

“People were differentiated by this substance, which was called nganon . Nganon was a concentrate which was defined in each person by…

— Joanne Greenberg

At least being nuts is being somewhere.

— Joanne Greenberg

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

— Joanne Greenberg

Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.

— Joanne Greenberg

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?

— Joanne Greenberg

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

— Joanne Greenberg

“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”

— Joanne Greenberg

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

— Joanne Greenberg