Susanna Kaysen Quotes

I hate to write Solutions in my books because I don’t really have solutions.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

I really kind of pride myself on figuring stuff out pretty quickly but I couldn't, couldn't. I just had no idea.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

I don't know how I do it, I really don't.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

Everybody has to take curveballs as they come in life and hopefully have the ability to adjust their plans.

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

There's going to be ups and downs throughout the whole year. You can't get frustrated.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.