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Ned Vizzini QUOTES

1 " Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

2 " you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before… "

― Ned Vizzini

3 " We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

4 " And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

5 " It's such a silly little thing, the heart. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

6 " Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

7 " You all right, man?'
This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man.
Ah...' I stumble.
Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

8 " That's worst than gonerreha, man! "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

9 " See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. They happen because of it. They depend on it. "

― Ned Vizzini , Be More Chill

10 " I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

11 " I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know? "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

12 " I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

13 " Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

14 " I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron’s, look at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, go and get my bike and head to the Brooklyn Bridge. All of that is still there. The only thing is, it’s not an option now. It’s just… a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s not a very likely possibility. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

15 " I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

16 " This was all an excuse, I think. I was doing fine. I had a 93 average and I was holding my head above water. I had good friends and a loving family. And because I needed to be the center of attention, because I needed something more, I ended up here, wallowing in myself, trying to convince everybody around me that I have some kind of. . . disease. I don’t have any disease. I keep pacing. Depression isn’t a disease. It’s a pretext for being a prima donna. Everybody knows that. My friends know it; my principal knows it. The sweating has started again. I can feel the Cycling roaring up in my brain. I haven’t done anything right. What have I done, made a bunch of little pictures? That doesn’t count as anything. I’m finished. My principal just called me and I hung up on him and didn’t call back. I’m finished. I’m expelled. I’m finished. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

17 " It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

18 " I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

19 " Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story

20 " It's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. ... you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet. "

― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story