Camila > Camila's Quotes

“But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 14

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“You didn't like it? Well, my next one will be even better!”
― Ed Wood

“One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.”
― Edward D. Wood, Jr.

“The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
― David Bowie

“And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through.

- Changes”
― David Bowie

“I'm a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I can't throw it away. It's physically impossible to leave my hand! Some of them are in warehouses. I've got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself--I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'F@#%k, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness."
--David Bowie, quoted in the Daily Beast in a 2002 interview with Bob Guccione, Jr.”
― David Bowie

“We can be heroes just for one day”
― David Bowie Heroes

“I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...”
― David Bowie

“Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel.

- Golden Years”
― David Bowie

“Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.”
― David Bowie

“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on.

-Quicksand”
― David Bowie, The Songs Of David Bowie

“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
― David Bowie

“Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!

- Moonage Daydream”
― David Bowie

“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
― David Bowie

“Cause I'd rather stay here
With all the madmen
Than perish with the sadmen roaming free
And I'd rather play here
With all the madmen
For I'm quite content they're all as sane
As me.

- All the Madmen”
― David Bowie

“Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.”
― David Bowie

“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.”
― David Bowie

“It's only forever, not long at all”
― David Bowie, Labyrinth Musical Score

“Written in pain, written in awe
By a puzzled man who questioned
What we were here for

- Oh! You Pretty Things”
― David Bowie

“And the stars look very different today.”
― David Bowie

“She will be your living end.

- Lady Grinning Soul”
― David Bowie

“All the knives seem to lacerate your brain
I've had my share
I'll help you with the pain

- Rock and Roll Suicide”
― David Bowie, David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - Off the Record

“My brain hurt like a warehouse
It had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people
And all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people.

- Five Years”
― David Bowie

“Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Quite often, young lady, it seems we're not getting anywhere, when in fact we are.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”
― Elana Dykewomon, Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted