Spiritual Quotes by Marya Hornbacher

“Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they…

— Marya Hornbacher

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first…

— Marya Hornbacher

“perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something…

— Marya Hornbacher

I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there…

— Marya Hornbacher

The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.

— Marya Hornbacher

“At a certain point, an eating disorder ceases to be "about" any one thing. It stops being about your family, or your culture. Very…

— Marya Hornbacher

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the…

— Marya Hornbacher

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of…

— Marya Hornbacher

“Being here, living now, recognizing our smallness, is a spiritual practice. It allows us to be at peace with our humanity. It humbles us…

— Marya Hornbacher

We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that…

— Marya Hornbacher

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

— Marya Hornbacher

If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others…

— Marya Hornbacher

“Every morning I watched the sun rise and read a highly religious little meditation book and tried having a conversation with God. I waited…

— Marya Hornbacher

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless...…

— Marya Hornbacher

One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends,…

— Marya Hornbacher