Janet C. Long quotes

“Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.”
-- Janet C. Long

#Depression Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Littles Quotes

“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

“Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.”

“Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.”

“If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.”

“If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.”

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

“I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster

“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”

“Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair”

“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”