James Patterson Quotes

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak,” he laughed.

I listen to the voices.

Don’t be afraid.” “I hear voices,” Iggy said. “Be very afraid.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.

I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.

People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? Of course I do.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

... madness entered my veins.

I'll be fine, and suddenly I'll feel the depression coming on. It can start with the smallest thing.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.