Catatonia Quotes

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Everything, that she was saying, now, everything that she saw and heard, took place in a deep numbness, in which all the senses are stilled and a person exists not in one's own life but with some emergency life that is stuck onto one. In such situations fear, pain, surprise and enlightenment come later, and until such time as one comes to one's senses, this sober, sturdy, and almost unfeeling mechanism takes over.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Live and Remember

“No symptoms beyond the deep sleep. This girl looks as if the slightest noise might wake her, or the faintest feather of a touch.

Catherine has seen patients rendered similarly lifeless by catatonic depression or by sudden traumatic news. When one's life seems broken beyond repair, there remains one last move: a person can at least shut her eyes.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“My body was a wax shell. A frozen thing. I could move, but I didn’t belong in it. I was watching myself collapse.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Some children, you see, don't need wars or famines or plagues to convince them that vegetables have the right idea about life. Some children are convinced from the start.”
― Stepan Chapman, The Troika