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Creativity Quote by Marie Osmond

"You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away"

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The line lands like a pop lyric that forgot to hide behind metaphor. "You are in the back of your head somewhere" frames the self as a stowaway: present, nagging, but not fully allowed in the room. It's a vivid image for dissociation without reaching for clinical language. Osmond makes the mind feel spatial and crowded, as if identity has been relegated to storage while the body keeps performing.

Then comes the blunt desire: "close your eyes and go away". Not sleep, not rest - disappearance. The phrasing is childlike on purpose; it captures how exhaustion and overwhelm often regress us into simpler, more desperate wishes. The power is in the second-person "you", which turns an internal confession into an address. It reads like self-talk you overhear at 2 a.m., intimate and a little alarming.

As a musician and long-running public figure, Osmond's context matters: a career built on poise, family-friendly polish, and relentless visibility. In that light, the quote feels like a crack in the stage makeup. The subtext is about the cost of being "on" - smiling as a job, managing a brand, showing up through personal turbulence. It's not glamorous sadness; it's the kind that makes you feel split from yourself.

What makes it work is its refusal to dramatize. No grand tragedy, just the eerie, relatable moment when your own mind starts treating you like an inconvenient passenger and escape sounds less like freedom than relief.

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Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959) is a Musician from USA.

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