Carrie Fisher citations

“"Religion is the opiate of the masses.""I did masses of opiates religiously.”

“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

“Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”

“If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.”

“There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.”

“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”

“Instant gratification takes too long.”

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

“No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.”

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

“What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.”

“Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.”

“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”

“You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?”

“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?”

“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

“From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?”

“I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.”

“You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, "Aww. They've just been told.”

“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”

“Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything… I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?”

“And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”

“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”

“Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.”

“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing.”

“Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.”