Top 25 Joanne Greenberg Quotes (2024 Update)

Joanne Greenberg Quote: “The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!”

1. “The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.”

2. “I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.”

3. “The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “And if I fight, then for what?“”For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity – a good strong self with which to begin to live.”

4. “And if I fight, then for what?“”For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity – a good strong self with which to begin to live.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “To praise one thing is not to damn another.”

5. “To praise one thing is not to damn another.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer... What good is your reality then?”

6. “What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer... What good is your reality then?”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”

7. “Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”

8. “Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy.”

9. “If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”

10. “The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn’t do to me smarter and faster and better.”

11. “There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn’t do to me smarter and faster and better.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “Don’t cut bangs with a hatchet. Don’t do brain surgery with a pickax.”

12. “Don’t cut bangs with a hatchet. Don’t do brain surgery with a pickax.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “At least being nuts is being somewhere.”

13. “At least being nuts is being somewhere.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?”

14. “If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?”

15. “What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “It suffered and died in translation.”

16. “It suffered and died in translation.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?”

17. “What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.”

18. “She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.”

19. “A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”

20. “You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “Anybody can hear – it takes brains to listen.”

21. “Anybody can hear – it takes brains to listen.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.”

22. “The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “A nut is someone whose noose broke.”

23. “A nut is someone whose noose broke.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “Money in the hand is real – coins and bills. The rest I don’t believe in, and I don’t think I ever did, really. What’s a check, after all, but a promise – mine, the bank’s. Me, I know, but the bank?”

24. “Money in the hand is real – coins and bills. The rest I don’t believe in, and I don’t think I ever did, really. What’s a check, after all, but a promise – mine, the bank’s. Me, I know, but the bank?”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “The memory may not change in form, but years of underlining give it a weight that can become tremendous. Each of the many, many times you are called to remember the cold of abandonment, the bars, and the loneliness, this experience says deep inside you, ‘You see? That’s the way life is, after all.”

25. “The memory may not change in form, but years of underlining give it a weight that can become tremendous. Each of the many, many times you are called to remember the cold of abandonment, the bars, and the loneliness, this experience says deep inside you, ‘You see? That’s the way life is, after all.”

— Joanne Greenberg

Joanne Greenberg Quote: “Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.”

26. “Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “Sometimes you have to fight what won’t yield and put yourself where it’s safe to be crazy.”

27. “Sometimes you have to fight what won’t yield and put yourself where it’s safe to be crazy.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “Here as elsewhere, the attackers were favored above the attacked. They were not so far from the world after all.”

28. “Here as elsewhere, the attackers were favored above the attacked. They were not so far from the world after all.”

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Joanne Greenberg Quote: “She was, after all, at home on D ward, more than she had ever been anywhere, and for the first time as a recognizable and defined thing – one of the nuts. She would have a banner under which to stand.”

29. “She was, after all, at home on D ward, more than she had ever been anywhere, and for the first time as a recognizable and defined thing – one of the nuts. She would have a banner under which to stand.”

— Joanne Greenberg

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