Jenny Lawson Quotes

One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.

But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

I have a tendency to freak myself out.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.