Tracy Thompson > Quotes

“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.”
― Tracy Thompson

“The brain is the only organ that tries to make sense of its pain. It is as if the bone were trying to understand the break, as if the blood vessel could comprehend its rupture. But this is also its greatest impediment to understanding. The mind clings fiercely to any alternative to chaos, even if that alternative is self-destruction.”
― Tracy Thompson, The Beast: A Journey Through Depression

“We live in a culture where we put our most intimate secrets on the Internet and have no idea who our next- door neighbors are, where we labor in cubicles all day and go home at night to update our Facebook page. What we lack- what most of us instinctively know we are missing, what makes so many of us log on to Facebook in the first place- is community.”
― Tracy Thompson, The New Mind of the South

“A broken leg can be remembered and located. 'It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach.' But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered--in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”
― Tracy Thompson