Going Crazy Quotes

“There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“In this atmosphere
Where you have to go
perennially crazy
only to survive,
Which auspicious moment
should I choose to become mad?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The shame-based person is nearly always enmeshed in some way with one or more people. While we are in a dysfunctional, shame-based relationship, we may feel like we are losing our mind, going crazy. When we try to test reality, we are unable to trust our senses, our feelings and our reactions.”
― Charles L. Whitfield, Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

“I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy.”
― A.A. Cheshire

“For me it's all about creating chaos.. and then getting away with it.”
― Hafsa Shah

“Going mad is the beginning of a process, it's not meant to be the end result.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“When you’re alive, you don’t dwell on how you’re going to spend your time once you’re dead. You just figure you’re gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.
Or you think you’re not really going to die. You’re going to be the first person in the history of the world who doesn’t have to. Maybe that’s some kind of lie our brains tell us to keep us from going crazy while we’re alive.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Redemption

“Shit, this had to be how Alzheimer's patients felt: Their personality was intact and so was their intellect...but they were surrounded by a world that no longer made sense because they couldn't hold on to their memories and associations and extrapolations.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Unleashed

“I lay awake long into the night, obsessing over Lucy's failings. Never mind the drugs and adultery; she seemed to lack the most basic parental instincts for keeping the children out of harm's way. The drip, drip, drip of her poor judgment and neglect was pushing me over the edge.”
― James Whitfield Thomson, Lies You Wanted to Hear

“You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world”
― Suki Kim, The Interpreter

“If he’s indeed going mad, he deserves it…”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“I felt on the verge of talking to her about things I hadn't talked about before. I'd written them. Sometimes I write to keep from going crazy. There's a world of things I don't feel free to talk to anyone about.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower