Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

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.

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.

From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

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

I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won't work.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

My body is covered with bruises from pinching myself on a daily basis.

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?