Prozac Diary Quotes

#1. Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.

Lauren Slater

#2. From anti-semite to self-hating jew, all in one day

Noam Chomsky

#3. Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.

Lauren Slater

#4. Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it.

Rajneesh

#5. I couldn't reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad. She held herself stiff, a lacquered lady. I think because I couldn't feel her, I couldn't feel myself.

Lauren Slater

#6. In illness, the world went wonderfully warped, high temperatures turning your pillow to a dune of snow and bringing the night sky, with its daisy-sized stars, so close to your bed you could touch it, and taste the moon.

Lauren Slater

#7. It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

Pete Townshend

#8. And I saw ans still see everything that I do have, but no matter what, there is always the itch of what gets lost.

Lauren Slater

#9. I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

Michael Ian Black

#10. The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

Lin Yutang

#11. I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.

Lauren Slater

#12. All the same, all different. What was it?

Lauren Slater

#13. Done is better than none. You could have all the ideas in the world, but without execution, you will go nowhere.

Sue B. Zimmerman

#14. To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.

Deanna Raybourn

#15. Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.

Lauren Slater

#17. There were the things he used to sustain life: a box of fish food. And the things he'd used to take it: a pair of nickel-plated handcuffs.

Lionel Dahmer