Suzanne Collins Quotes

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

Folly and desperation are ofttimes hard to tell apart.

To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist. And racist people will find a way to project their racism onto the world.

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lost, even in Wales.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.