All Joanne Greenberg Quotes
- If I want to die, what am I saving myself for? Die
- The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no… Afraid
- The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. Bring
- To praise one thing is not to damn another. Damn
- A nut is someone whose noose broke. Broke
- A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches. Another Voice
- "I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else" Answered
- The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also. Accepted
- The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need… Caring
- ...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that… Agony
- The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too! Bore
- Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion. Capacity
- I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The… Answered
- The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally. Allies
- I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things,… Always Come
- At least being nuts is being somewhere. Funny
- There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better. Better
- She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the… Death
- Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. Inmates