Quotes from Ned Vizzini

O seu problema é que você tem uma visão de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressão. ? Ned Vizzini, Uma história meio que engraçada

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Life is a nightmare

Oh boy, now it looked like a duck

I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, and witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise, and I HAD incredible promise, and I spoke up in class because I was excited and smart about the world. I was the Shift so bad. I'm waiting for the phrase that will invoke it. It'll be like a miracle within my life.

Now Mom is crying, and I learn something I didn't know about the human body: if your mom cries, you cry.

O seu problema é que você tem uma visão de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressão.

I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

I was having a dream. I don't know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin.

I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it

Life is not cured. Life is managed.

I was lying to this person; that meant we really knew each other.

but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

Everything in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be- 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'.

Obstacles are those frightening things that appear when we take our mind off our goals

Huh, yeah,' Johnny says. 'My mom was always complimenting me, and look how I turned out.

And I always look like I'm about to cry.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. I'll tell you how, soldier. It's because you're not ambitious, you're just lazy

Life's not about feeling better; it's about getting the job done

I'm glad I have a concrete thing to blame this on, something everyone can point a finger at.

I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for Preschool.

I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.

everything in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be