Neal Shusterman Quotes

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.

One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.

One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

I'm not a tortured soul.

It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

It is definitely easier to deal with injuries on the mental side after you've had a few of them, since you are aware of the recovery process.

Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors - that's life.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.