Ned Vizzini Quotes
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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.
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I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
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I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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And when you say the truth you get stronger.
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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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That's worst than gonerreha, man!
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Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.
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I think you run out of 'I love yous
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I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
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I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.
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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
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The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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Depression starts slow.
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