Suzanne Collins Quotes

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'

Work is a great blotter up. It stops you thinking, which is useful. No, it stops you feeling.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.