Rachel Sprouffske > Rachel's Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“What happened when you woke up?"
"I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin."
"Like a brick in the groin, I see."
"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."
"And what is that nightmare, Craig?"
"Life."
"Life is a nightmare."
"Yes.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“And when you say the truth you get stronger.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“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.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“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 lay 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.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Do you even know who the enemy is?"
"I think... it's me".”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm going to be here until I'm cured?"
"Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Nobody had told me I was common.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? It's an option taken by a lot of successful people: Ernest Hemingway, Socrates, Jesus. Even before high school, I thought that it would be a cool thing to do if I ever got really famous. If I kept making my maps, for instance, and some art collector came across them and decided to make them worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if I killed myself at the height of that, they'd be worth millions of dollars, and I wouldn't be responsible for them anymore. I'd have left behind something that spoke for itself.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I don't believe in destiny; I just believe in biology, and hotness, and wanting girls.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own. It's time for me to be true to myself, like the popstars say. And my true self wants to blast off this rock.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“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.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough -- just smart enough to have problems.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“That's my school. I worked harder to get in than I did for anything else, ever. I went there because, coming out of it, I'd be able to be President. Or a lawyer. Rich, that's the point. Rich and successful.
And look where it got me. One stupid year and here I am with not one, but two bracelets on my wrist, next to a shrink in a room adjacent to a hall where there's a guy named Human Being walking around. If I keep doing this for three more years, where will I be? I'll be a complete loser. And what If I keep on? What if I do okay, live with the depression, get into College, do College, go to Grad School, get the Job, get the Money, get Kids and a Wife and a Nice Car? What kind of crap will I be in then? I'll be completely crazy.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
― Chris Rock