"For me, the first sign of oncoming madness……" — Marya Hornbacher
"For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write."
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104 Quotes by Marya Hornbacher
Marya Hornbacher has 104 quotes on this site.
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One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind…
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[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the…
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You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life…
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I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow…
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Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and…
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You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong,…
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Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't…
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Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do.…
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So many means of self-destruction, so little time.
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We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or…
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The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over…
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In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.
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More First Sign Quotes
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in…
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The common man or women, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, Protestant or Catholic or Iraqi or American, the common…
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Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.
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You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets…
— Seymour Hicks
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their…
— Florence Nightingale
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The Revelation of the Báb may be likened to the sun, its station corresponding to the first sign of the Zodiac—the sign…
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I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
— Wynton Marsalis
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing,…
— J C Ryle
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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
— R C Sproul
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If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy,…
— Jack Handey
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Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege…
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