Consciousness Quote by Lucy Grealy

And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable…

— Mark Haddon

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart…

— Sri Aurobindo

I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I…

— Tori Amos

When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles.

— Julia Duffy

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but…

— Charles Dickens

Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them…

— Madonna Ciccone

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff…

— Anthony Burgess

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

— David Foster Wallace

I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her…

— James McBride

I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I…

— Anonymous

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert