Top 33 Cahalan Susannah Quotes
#1. You have to look backward to see the future, he often said to his residents.
stated by Dr Najjar. So true in many settings
Susannah Cahalan
#2. The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.
Susannah Cahalan
#3. How many people throughout history suffered from my disease and others like it but went untreated? This question is made more pressing by the knowledge that even though the disease was discovered in 2007, some doctors I spoke to believe that it's been around at least as long as humanity has.
Susannah Cahalan
#4. Our minds have the incredible capacity to both alter the strength of connections among neurons, essentially rewiring them, and create entirely new pathways. (It makes a computer, which cannot create new hardware when its system crashes, seem fixed and helpless).
Susannah Cahalan
#5. Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.
Susannah Cahalan
#6. Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.
Susannah Cahalan
#7. What else had I forgotten? What else would come back, knocking me off balance and reminding me how tenuous my grip on reality was?
Susannah Cahalan
#9. The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE B
Susannah Cahalan
#10. Someone once asked, "If you could take it all back, would you?"
At the time I didn't know. Now I do. I wouldn't take that terrible experience back for anything in the world. Too much light has come out of my darkness.
Susannah Cahalan
#11. I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.
Estelle
#12. Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.
Susannah Cahalan
#15. I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
Steve Lacy
#16. The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it.
Alex Berenson
#17. When you think all is lost, the things you need most return unexpectedly.
Susannah Cahalan
#18. For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules - and then sticking productive earners with the bill. But, now, we're out of money.
Ann Coulter
#21. We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.
Susannah Cahalan
#22. I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.
Anne Frank
#24. It just begged the question: If it took so long for one of the best hospitals in the world to get to this step, how many other people were going untreated, diagnosed with a mental illness or condemned to a life in a nursing home or a psychiatric ward?
Susannah Cahalan
#25. May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
Charles Spurgeon
#26. Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.
Joanna Brooks
#27. The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Dag Hammarskjold
#28. The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
Andy Rooney
#29. An evil person will have evil friends;
a righteous person will have righteous friends.
The company you keep is hidden treasure or masked demise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. If you have an approach that makes money, then money management can make the difference between success and failure ... I try to be conservative in my risk management. I want to make sure I'll be around to play tomorrow. Risk control is essential.
Monroe Trout
#31. I had asked him many times why he stayed, and he always said the same thing: "Because I love you, and I wanted to, and I knew you were in there." No matter how damaged I had been, he had loved me enough to still see me somewhere inside.
Susannah Cahalan
#33. Though my behavior was worsening day by day, it was still difficult for her to reconcile the old image that she had of her daughter as trustworthy, hard working, and independent with the new, unpredictable, and dangerous one.
Susannah Cahalan
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