Top 300 Jenny Lawson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “We are broken. We are healing. It never ends. And, if you look at it in just the right light, it is beautiful.”

— Jenny Lawson

302. “It’s the whole world. It’s every terrible thing that happens in the universe that I feel like I need to speak out about but then don’t because fear stops me. Then I fear that inaction. I fear that my silence is equal to agreement with terrible things. I fear when I do speak out that I’ve done so inelegantly, or wrongly, or that I’ve made things worse. That it’s not my place to speak or that it’s not my place to be silent.”

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303. “Truthfully though, there are some advantages to being on antipsychotics. This might seem silly but when you go to the pharmacy and you’re standing in line with twenty germy people sneezing all over the place you can honestly say, “Would you mind if I went first? I have to pick up my antipsychotic meds and I REALLY needed them yesterday.” This tactic also works for grocery lines, the DMV, and some buffets.”

— Jenny Lawson

304. “And I remind myself that I’m lucky to be able to feel such great sorrow, and also such great happiness.”

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305. “There are periods in my life when the only close friend that I have is me. And that can be a bit sad during times when I am not someone that I even want to be with. But in some ways it’s important. I am alone so often that I criticize myself and hate myself and love myself and get way too into my own head.”

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306. “No one ever died from being sad.” Except that they do. And when we see celebrities who fall victim to depression’s lies we think to ourselves, “How in the world could they have killed themselves? They had everything.” But they didn’t. They didn’t have a cure for an illness that convinced them they were better off dead.”

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307. “Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how not to become them.”

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308. “I live with two extroverts, which is helpful in that they keep me from becoming a complete hermit but also terrible because they have no concept of the utter emotional and physical exhaustion that comes from living in a world that is too peoply.”

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309. “Editor’s note: Start over. Sound less ludicrous.”

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310. “Rory the Dead Raccoon stood up on his hind legs, his arms stretched out in glee. He looked like he was the most excited member of your surprise party, or like a Time Lord in the process of regenerating. His.”

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311. “Becoming your own friend means taking care of yourself the way you would someone that you love. And that’s hard. But it is necessary.”

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312. “The world feels safer somehow if we share our pain. It becomes more manageable. And by sharing our pain, we inspire others to share theirs. We are so much less alone if we learn to wear our imperfections proudly, like tarnished jewelry that still shines just as brightly.”

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313. “Nothing lasts forever. The good and the bad.”

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314. “Still, my face does feel very clean. Clean and terribly, terribly lonely.”

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315. “I didn’t fail in responding to past treatments... those treatments failed to work for me.”

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316. “We are all made up from the weirdness that we try to hide from the rest of the world.”

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317. “Really, the only people you should be comparing yourself to would be people who make you feel better by comparison. For instance, people who are in comas, because those people have no spoons at all and you don’t see anyone judging them. Personally, I always compare myself to Galileo because everyone knows he’s fantastic, but he has no spoons at all because he’s dead. So technically I’m better than Galileo because all I’ve done is take a shower and already I’ve accomplished more than him today.”

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318. “And I have the Internet. That sounds weird, but Twitter is a lot like having a large, invisible gang of equally messed-up people who will hide with you in bathrooms and make you laugh under the pillow fort you’ve built in a lonely hotel room.”

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319. “I have struggled with anxiety for as long as I can remember. When I was young I thought it would pass as I got older, and when I was older I thought it would pass when I was successful, and when I was successful I thought that it was hopeless because even when everything was going right I was still wrong.”

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320. “I remind myself that my eyes are working differently than most people’s right now. Being in the dark too long will do that to you. And sometimes there’s a small blessing in that.”

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321. “I’m not joking, but we still laugh because laughter is the best way to cover pain.”

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322. “You mix a can of cranberry sauce with a can of mandarin oranges and eat it out of a cereal bowl while your family questions your life choices.”

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323. “I try to be honest about the shame that I feel because with honesty comes empowerment and also understanding.”

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324. “This morning I was writing about brussel sprouts and spellcheck told me they’re actually “brussels sprouts.” With an S. Like they’re from Brussels? Because I’m in my forties and I just now figured that out. My whole life has been a lie.”

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325. “Looking back now, it seems strange that I spent so much of my childhood on alert for roving satanists and unmarked quicksand, neither of which ended up being nearly as much of a problem in my real life as I had been led to believe.”

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326. “I was traumatized, but my vocabulary was improving.”

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327. “When our brains declare war on our very existence.”

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328. “I’m not sure what the difference is between sleeping and time travel.”

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329. “Life is full of these moments that are supposed to be amazing but end up being questionable at best. I often wonder if it’s because we build them up as being so important and so they can never measure up. I think that’s part of it, but honestly I suspect that the people who made up all the milestones that are supposed to be important are psychopaths.”

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330. “If I had a nickel for every time I hypocritically felt better about myself for not being one of those other hypocritical people who self-righteously brag about being better than other people who aren’t as enlightened as they are, I’d probably have enough money to actually fix some of the things that none of us are really doing anything meaningful about.”

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331. “Bruce Springsteen said you can’t start a fire without a spark, but you can start it with a magnifying glass. It ruins the rhyme scheme but at the cost of science. And arson. But maybe it’s still a spark even if it starts with a magnifying glass? Maybe the first flame is always a spark? But that’s like saying you can’t start a fire without a fire. That’s just sloppy songwriting. Bruce Springsteen is obviously not the boss of scientific accuracy.”

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332. “My anxiety disorder, on the other hand, is always with me and comes with all sorts of niggling “bonus” disorders and phobias, like some sort of terrible boxed set.”

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333. “I am a bad risk,” I said, sighing with acceptance. He was silent for a minute. “You are a bad risk,” he agreed, nodding as he looked up at the stars. “But one I’m happy to take.” And as I breathed in the night air I thought of the struggle and the glory and the sadness and celebration and mystery that still lay ahead of me. And I said, “Me too.” And it was the truth.”

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334. “I have more tools now than ever, and that helps, but sometimes the only thing that I accomplish in a day is just surviving. It’s both an amazing achievement and also tinged with shame, as you see others who seem to whiz past you as you barely tread water. Maybe they’re treading water too. You can’t tell. You’re just trying to breathe.”

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335. “Victor might have refused to congratulate me on the fact that I hadn’t fallen down a well that week, but that dead raccoon always had my back and very few people can say that.”

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336. “And sometimes it is small and sometimes it is big, but always it is hard. And always it is worth it.”

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337. “Only monsters call when they could text.”

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338. “How can we be expected to properly judge ourselves? We know all of our worst secrets.”

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339. “I will probably feel my best only after I’ve been dead for 6 months.”

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340. “I can’t even organize my sock drawer, much less a murder.”

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341. “Those terrible things you tell yourself? Can you imagine if the person you love most were telling themselves those things? You’d think they were crazy. And wrong. They think the same about you. Those negative things you are thinking are not rational. Remember that depression lies and that your brain is not always trustworthy.”

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342. “You are killing me. You are shaming me. You are standing in the way of the health and happiness of so many of us. And you are making money while standing on our backs and telling us how much we don’t need the things that keep us alive.”

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343. “I am one of the small group of people who go to Halloween stores not for temporary plastic decorations but for actual interior design ideas.”

— Jenny Lawson