I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Joanne Greenberg
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”
“I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why, before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.”
“She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.”
“The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”
“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”
“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.”
“Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”
“At least being nuts is being somewhere.”
“...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.”
“And if I fight, then for what?" "For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.”
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Book Keywords:
mental-illness, mental-health, hope, philosophy, despair, psychology
