Susanna Kaysen Quotes About Emptiness

Quotes about: Emptiness

• It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Distance, Fall, Numbness

  "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1994.

• Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Luxury, Clothes

• Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Boredom, Despair, Emptiness

• My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Boredom, Feelings, Facts

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.154, Vintage

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