Mental state Quote by Sue Townsend

“It made me alert, like someone had scrubbed mint all over my skin. I'd walk into that stinking, miserable prison and for the next…

— Jennifer Egan

“I was crazy. I was crazy in the way a child is crazy, in the way of someone who believes, with rash fervor, that…

— Claire Messud

“I used to believe everyone was a little crazy in his or her own way, that we were all allowed a moment of insanity,…

— Joyce Chua

“Memories haunted me often and prevented my mind from settling soon. I had to choose a hard path for bread, while the dilemma began…

— Nithin Purple

“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head…

— Eula Biss

“Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, an in there, down there, I started…

— Markus Zusak

“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with…

— Antonin Artaud

“I don't recall telling you I was anything other than a lunatic.”

— Shay Savage

“I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just…

— David Wong

“And if sometimes, late at night in bed, I questioned whether or not I truly was insane, I told myself that it didn't matter.…

— Jessica Verday

“Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I…

— Nicole Krauss

“My parents walked around me on tiptoe, afraid of hurting me. But I knew how disappointed they were. All of a sudden the daughter…

— Haruki Murakami