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Carrie Fisher QUOTES

Carrie Fisher QUOTES

1 " I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. "

― Carrie Fisher

2 " There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed. "

― Carrie Fisher

3 " I thought you might supply some tenderness
I lacked
But out of all the things I offered you took my
breath away
and now I want it back "

― Carrie Fisher , The Princess Diarist

4 " To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit. "

― Carrie Fisher , The Princess Diarist

5 " I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more. "

― Carrie Fisher , The Princess Diarist

6 " Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir "

― Carrie Fisher , Postcards from the Edge

7 " Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings. "

― Carrie Fisher

8 " Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either. "

― Carrie Fisher

9 " She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to the birds and crickets and feeling the whole world breathe. Instead, she lived in her head like a madwoman locked in a tower, hearing the wind howling through her hair and waiting for someone to come and rescue her from feeling things so deeply that her bones burned. "

― Carrie Fisher , Postcards from the Edge

10 " One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.
They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication. "

― Carrie Fisher , Wishful Drinking

11 " Clothes falling away signals a situation that I'll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don't dress it up, don't expect talk to, either. "

― Carrie Fisher , The Princess Diarist

12 " Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all? "

― Carrie Fisher , Wishful Drinking

13 " The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to. "

― Carrie Fisher , Postcards from the Edge

14 " I am always disappointed with someone who loves me - how perfect can he be if he can't see through me? "

― Carrie Fisher , The Princess Diarist

15 " If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn't as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was. "

― Carrie Fisher , The Princess Diarist

16 " Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again. "

― Carrie Fisher , Shockaholic

17 " I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. "

― Carrie Fisher , Postcards from the Edge

18 " You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always going, ‘What’s that? What’s that?’ You wondered what everything was. You would frown and point a lot, like a conductor looking for your orchestra. You always seemed very busy, like you were between appointments all the time, but you were just a little child. "

― Carrie Fisher

19 " I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here. "

― Carrie Fisher , The Princess Diarist

20 " I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.
I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later. "

― Carrie Fisher , Wishful Drinking