Charlaine Harris Quotes

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

Yes, Chix, it's between us. Everyone has a right to be temporarily unstable. - Foaly

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.