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Disconnect and self-destruct one moment at a time. What's your rush now, everyone will have his day to die. Medicated, drama queen, picture perfect, numb belligerence. Narcissistic, drama queen, craving fame and all this decadence. Lying through your teeth again. Suicidal imbecile. -A Perfect Circle

Calm these hands before they snare another pill and drive another nail down another needy hole. Please release me. I am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown. Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun. I choose to live. -A Perfect Circle

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health. Can I ask a question to help me save me from myself? -A Perfect Circle

Time to feed the monster. I don't need another friend. Comfort is a mystery. Crawling out of my own skin. Just give me what I came for, then I'm out the door again. -A Perfect Circle

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. -Chinua Achebe

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle. -Jack Adams

The freedom now desired by many is not the freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. -James Truslow Adams

Visions that can change the world, trapped inside an ordinary girl. She looks just like me, too afraid to dream out loud. -Yolanda Adams

Shattered, but I'm not broken. Wounded, but time will heal. Heavy the load, the cross I bear. Lonely the road I trod, I dare. Shaken, but here I stand. Weary, still I press on. Long are the nights, the tears I cry. Dark are the days, no sun in the sky. Yet still I rise, never to give up, never to give in, against all odds. Yet still I rise, high above the clouds. At times I feel low, yet still I rise. Sometimes I'm troubled, but not in despair. Struggling, I make my way through. Trials, they come to make me strong. I must endure, I must hold on. -Yolanda Adams

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. -Joseph Addison

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. -Alfred Adler

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. -Alfred Adler

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity. -Alfred Adler

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. -Freda Adler

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. -Renata Adler

Do you think someone who is about to rape you is going to stop and think about a condom? -Eli Adorn

I kept the right ones out and let the wrong ones in. Had an angel of mercy to see me through all my sins. There were times in my life when I was going insane, tryin' to walk through the pain. When I lost my grip and I hit the floor, yeah, I thought I could leave but couldn't get out the door. I was so sick and tired of living a lie. I was wishin' that I would die. -Aerosmith

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn. Isn't that the way? Everybody's got their dues in life to pay. -Aerosmith

The ends don't always justify the means but I know what it takes to get what I need. I've got the cure when passive protest just won't do...just flick my Bic as I hold it to the fuse. -AFI

As a whole part of ‘psychological education’ it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that ‘adjustment’ to a sick and insane environment is of itself not ‘health’ but sickness and insanity. -James Agee

Young girl, don't hide. You'll never change if you just run away. Young girl, just hold tight and soon you're gonna see your brighter day. Now in a world where innocence is quickly claimed, it's so hard to stand your ground when you're so afraid. No one reaches out a hand for you to hold. When you're lost outside look inside to your soul. When there's no one else, look inside yourself. Like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within -Christina Aguilera

I often wonder why I carry all this guilt when it's you that helped me put up all these walls I've built. Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door. The echo of a broken child screaming 'please no more'. -Christina Aguilera

Why must we all conceal what we think, how we feel? Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide? I won't pretend that I'm someone else for all time. When will my reflection show who I am inside? -Christina Aguilera

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. -Leo Aikman

She won't feel all the wounds inside her that time can never heal. The city lights shine seaward, swirling in a trance, her eyes upon the water, alone in her last dance. -Alan Parsons Project

My body a shell of human cells that contain me. Myself a kaleidoscope of thoughts that won’t set me free. -Alchemist

I am a being who is unique. What I discover depends what I seek. I wish to travel without to within, to discover existence outside of my skin. I feel and I smell and I taste and I see - understand reality. I'm living life's journey the best that I can - but often I find I don't know where I am. I often perceive the world out of context but wondering makes me perplexed. I look to balance and self harmony while I'm in life and while life is in me. -Alchemist

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. -Louisa May Alcott

Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. -Louisa May Alcott

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. -Louisa May Alcott

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. -Louisa May Alcott

It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. -Brian W. Aldiss

There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy. -Dante Alighieri

I wept not, so to stone within I grew. -Dante Alighieri

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. -Woody Allen

I found the secret to life - I'm ok when everything is not ok. -Tori Amos

That's what that night was about - mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and that now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. -Tori Amos

Death is somewhere inside me. She was the kind of girl all the girls wanted to be, I believe, because of her acceptance of 'what is'. She keeps reminding me there is change in the 'what is' but change cannot be made 'til you accept the 'what is'. -Tori Amos

Rape's not something where you can go 'believe in love and peace my child and it'll be over'. Well fuck you, that isn't the answer! It's a great thought, ok, but you can go and stick crystals up your butt and get on with it. I'm all for love and peace but that is not the side of it I work on. If somebody were to talk about it or worse, joke about it, I would be ready to kill. That's not healing. -Tori Amos

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets. -Tori Amos

How does a woman reconnect with her own body after rape and not associate sex with violence? -Tori Amos

I had to pretend I was a whore in my mind, thinking I was gonna get paid so I could be detached and stay in control. -Tori Amos

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves as I have done. -Tori Amos

I started finding the people inside me...the prostitute that's really angry because I judge her so harshly...the self righteous virgin who knows everything about sex and has never made love. -Tori Amos

Aggression starts where people suppress their feelings. At some point those emotions force their way out and that results in all sorts of trouble. -Tori Amos

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'yes I'm sitting next to the butcher now' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'. Well there certainly is one. -Tori Amos

I am finding that vulnerability gives me great strength, because you're not hiding anymore. It's really about being a pioneer for myself, going into the places where I am not being taught. I have to teach myself. -Tori Amos

The idea is to rescue myself from the role of a victim, that I have a choice left. Though I can't change what has happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up. -Tori Amos

People are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into the wound to discover what your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. -Tori Amos

What sense does it make to load yourself with drugs so much that you are not noticing anything anymore? -Tori Amos

I see the dream and I see the nightmare and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare. -Tori Amos

You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok. -Tori Amos

I have so many different personalities in me, and I still feel lonely. -Tori Amos

If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself. -Tori Amos

For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express herself. -Tori Amos

I'm tired of being a rebel. Now I just want to be me. -Tori Amos

I've got your mind I said. She said I've your voice. I said you don't need my voice girl, you have your own but you never thought it was enough of. So they went years and years like sisters, blanket girls always there through that and this, there's nothing we cannot ever fix. I said can't stop what's coming can't stop what's on its way. -Tori Amos

We'll I'm not seventeen but I've cuts on my knees. Falling down as the winter takes one more cherry tree. She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own. -Tori Amos

Give me life. Give me pain. Give me myself again. -Tori Amos

These precious things let them bleed. Let them wash away. These precious things let them break their hold over me. -Tori Amos

‘Cause sometimes, I said sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these… Years go by will I still be waiting for somebody else to understand? Years go by if I'm stripped of my beauty and the orange clouds raining in my head. Years go by will I choke on my tears ‘til finally there is nothing left? One more casualty you know we're too easy. -Tori Amos

I got my rape hat on honey, but I always could accessorize. -Tori Amos

I say the world is sick. You say, ‘tell me what that makes us darlin’?” You see, you always find my faults faster than you find your own. -Tori Amos

'Fresh start' is not something I use. It's a cliche. I don't want anything to do with it. Everything in my past is part of who I am. There are calluses on your hands. -Tori Amos

Don't you like it? Fire? It cleanses. It definitely purifies...don't you love that smell? -Tori Amos

You know, he can never take your soul. There can be scars, but he will never take your soul. Your soul is yours. You take it back okay? You keep your soul. -Tori Amos

The dark side is not something most people think is inside them. -Tori Amos

You know when people smile too much? It's painful, I find that really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like um, with a fierce calm. -Tori Amos

If a guy hits me, I will literally grab hold of his throat, put my teeth into it and rip until he is dead. -Tori Amos

I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck. -Tori Amos

You have to accept that Sorrow will be there. You better make real good friends with her, because she's going to be there, especially as you get older. And after a while, Sorrow becomes the deepest part of the ocean. You know, there are times that Sorrow tells the dirtiest jokes. -Tori Amos

I think you're always striving for wholeness. I don't think you can put a time limit to it; it's really always another fragment coming your way as long as you're alive until you leave the planet. -Tori Amos

You know that saying, 'Bad things don't happen to good people'? That's a painful lie, and it hits you on such a core level. -Tori Amos

Anger is healthy, but out of balance if it doesn't have compassion. -Tori Amos

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling. -Margaret C. Anderson

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. -Ramona L. Anderson

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. -Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. -Maya Angelou

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. -Maya Angelou

I'm just thinking about the child in me that I sometimes feel inside. And I'm figuring out just what it is that makes me feel so small. Is it you that hurts me when I give myself every day and every night? -Anouk

I'm gonna get out of my shell, try without anybody's help, to loose this heavy load and get my life back on the road. I've seen the worst when I was down, only loneliness I found. Now I'm climbing to the top and I ain't never gonna stop. I'll carry on, though the road is long. I'm gonna get myself together and I'll hold on 'cause I am strong. Gonna try to make it better. -Anouk

It's about that time to leave it all behind you. You don't want to but life is passing by you. The hard knocks, got you twisted like dreadlocks. Catalogue your dark and set some new marks. I understand your body's filled with hesitation. Trust me it's gonna be a whole new situation. Turn this page I guess you know what to do…rise up like phoenix. I'm bringing out the beauty in you. -Anouk

Lady it's your turn now. Just walk the streets with your head up high. Oh baby, doesn't that feel right? So put a big smile on your face, you walk on straight, yeah. Tell the mother fuckers they were wrong. Isn't this your sweetest revenge? Feels good, hey I told you so! -Anouk

If I had just one moment at your expense, maybe all my misery, it would be well spent. -Angie Aparo

Is that why they call me sullen girl? They don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea. But he washed my shore and he took my pearl and left an empty shell of me. -Fiona Apple

From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion and I ran my hand o'er a strange inversion. A vacancy that just did not belong. The child is gone. -Fiona Apple

Please forgive me for my distance. The pain is evident in my existence. Please forgive me for my distance. The shame is manifest in my resistance. -Fiona Apple

How can I deal with this if he won't get with this? Am I gonna heal from this? He won't admit to it. Nothing to figure out. I gotta get him out. It's time the truth was out - that he don't give a shit about me. -Fiona Apple

Sometimes my mind don't shake and shift but most of the time it does. And I get to the place where I'm begging for a lift or I'll drown in the wonders and the was. And I'll be your girl if you say it's a gift and you give me some more of your drugs. Yeah, I'll be your pet, if you just tell me it's a gift 'cause I'm tired of whys - choking on whys. Just need a little because because. -Fiona Apple

I'm gonna fuck it up again. I'm gonna take another detour. Unpave my path. And if you wanna make sense, whatcha lookin' at me for? -Fiona Apple

It's psychologically and chemically impossible for me to be happy. I know I'm going to die young. -Fiona Apple

I definitely had an eating disorder. What was really frustrating for me was that everyone though I was anorexic, and I wasn't. I was really depressed and self-loathing. For me, it wasn't about being thin, it was about getting rid of the bait attached to my body. A lot of it came from the self-loathing that came from being raped -Fiona Apple

It was never, like, 'I am going to hurt myself and put myself in the hospital.' ...It is that I am going to give myself the pain that I need to feel to put the punctuation on this shit that's going inside. -Fiona Apple

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. -Hannah Arendt

Kept it inside, didn't tell no one else, didn't even wanna admit it to yourself. And now your chest burns and your back aches from 15 years of holding the pain. And now you only have yourself to blame if you continue to live this way. -India Arie

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. -Aristippus

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. -Aristotle

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. -Aristotle

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. -Aristotle

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. -Usman B. Asif

I'm sorry. I don't think it's going to be okay this time. My heart has skipped its final beat. It's beating me down onto the floor. That must mean that the pills are working. The glass isn't half empty this time. I smashed it to the ground a long, long time ago. It shattered when it fell and I broke to pieces. Each shard's another reason, another way to give up. -Atreyu

Yesterday I forgot to breathe for like the 6th time this week. -Atreyu

Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison. -Margaret Atwood

It makes me feel more in control, as if there is a choice, a decision that could be made one way or the other. -Margaret Atwood

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, ‘Don't let there be air’; or ‘Don't be’. -Margaret Atwood

You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet. Take up dancing to forget. Forget what? Your sadness, your shadow, whatever it was that was done to you. -Margaret Atwood

But it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength. -Margaret Atwood

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. -Margaret Atwood

I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do your hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. -Kevyn Aucoin

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. -Jane Austen

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? -Jane Austen

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She tried to give a cry for help. She even blamed things on herself. But no one came to her aid. Nothing was wrong as far as we could tell. That's what we'd like to tell ourselves. -Babyface

Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. -Gaston Bachelard

Take uppers, downers, blues and reds and yellows. Our brains are turning to Jello. We think that life is overrated. Loneliness was underestimated. We are looking forward to the days when we live inside of a purple haze. -Joan Baez

To the kid I thought was a little too young to know what sadness was, who took me out when I was down and set out to find the cause of why the lady had the blues and seemed on the verge of tears. I tell you that kid must have been around for a hundred and fifty years. -Joan Baez

My father warned me about men and liquor but he never said a word about women and cocaine. -Tallulah Bankhead

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -Margaret Barber

The lights are on but nobody’s home. My elevator doesn’t go to the top. I’m not playing with a full deck I’ve lost my marbles. I’m a few bricks short of a load but a full load always hurt my back. I flew over the cuckoo’s nest and I’m never ever coming back because I am crazy just like you. -Barenaked Ladies

My hands are locked up tight in fists. My mind is racing filled with lists of things to do and things I’ve done. Another sleepless night’s begun. -Barenaked Ladies

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time. -Drew Barrymore

The truth is that you are never mended. You just learn how to deal with the problems that intensify your disease. -Drew Barrymore

That's the way I am - either I forget something immediately or I never forget it. -Samuel Beckett

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. -Henry Ward Beecher

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children. -Henry Ward Beecher

The mirror on the wall, staring face unknown to me, behind this mask I hide from thee, these tears impossible to see. This painted smile stains my face, impossible to see me break. -Before the Dawn

Even in the middle of great despair and crisis we can discover a place deep within which is totally beautiful, pure and powerful, and which is never victimized - it never has been and never will be. -Serge Berrington Behrens

Tired of living life in black and white. There's so much in-between. Like a rainbow in the sky, crying to be seen. When I open my eyes to find inspiration, I search for the best I can see. If I settle for less, I won't be the best I can be. -Regina Belle

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. -Robert Benchley

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. -Stephen Vincent Benét

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. -Zacharty Bercovitz

Habits ... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction... You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. -Juliene Berk

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. -André Berthiaume

Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. -Ambrose Bierce

Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it and privately we excuse and overlook it. -Victoria Billings

I got my shit together and found I couldn't lift it. -Roy Blount, Jr.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape. -Bodhidharma

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words do permanent damage. -Eric Bogosian

I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of food. -Erma Bombeck

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. -Edward de Bono

When the sun comes up, I have morals again - Elayne Boosler

You know, the anorectic is always convinced she is taking up too much space, eating too much, wanting food too much. I've never felt that way but I've often felt that I was too much - too much emotion, too much need, too loud and demanding, too much there, if you know what I mean. -Susan Bordo

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. -Phyllis Bottome

Oh I am young but I have aged. Waited long to seize the day. All things said and plenty done. Oh I am young but I have a past. Traveled far to find the start. Yes I am scared and I've been burnt, but life is short. -Butterfly Boucher

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. -Christian Nevell Bovee

I'm just fourteen. Oh, I love it when he says so seriously, with his gun in my back, honey make love to me. -Bow Wow Wow

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. -Nathaniel Branden

I have learned to retreat at the first sign of danger. I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender? Ambition, I have found, can only lead to failure. -Bright Eyes

So that's how I learned the lesson that everyone is alone and your eyes must do some raining if you're ever going to grow. -Bright Eyes

And I give myself three days to feel better or else I swear I'll drive right off a fucking cliff because if I can't learn to make myself feel better how can I expect anyone else to give a shit? -Bright Eyes

Well, I’ve cried and you would think I'd feel better for it. But the sadness just sleeps and it stays in my spine for the rest of my life. And I’ve learned and you’d think I’d be something more now. But it just goes to show it is not what you know, it's what you were thinking at the time. -Bright Eyes

And I find that life is easier when it is just a blur with no details to confuse who or what or where I was. So when the ending comes the full regret will seem obscure. -Bright Eyes

You're always looking for something to sniff smoke or swallow. Calling over next door, see what they've got. But you would settle for anything that would make your brain slow down or stop this circle of thoughts you chase before they catch back up with you. And your parents notice your thinning face, all the weight you've lost, all the weight you’re losing. You said, ‘I'm done feeling like a skeleton, no more sleep walking dead.’ You're going to wake from this coma. You're going to crawl from this bed you've made. Stop counting on the camera that hangs around your neck, ‘cause it will never remember what you choose to forget. -Bright Eyes

Maybe it's me who's this unstable, always obsessed about the end. Why can't I let what happens happen and just enjoy the time I spend? Oh, how I wish it was that easy but when there is no point to anything you know it gets a bit confusing. Why is it that I keep going? -Bright Eyes

All I do is just lay in bed and hide under the covers. Yeah I know I should be brave but I'm just too afraid of all this change and it's too hard to focus through all this doubt. I keep making these to-do lists but nothing gets crossed out. -Bright Eyes

It's your naked body on white velour but there's no feeling, just weight on you. But you get nauseous now, as he speaks to you, such proper language, for acts so cruel. He says we all follow the rules, we can't go and break them now can we, for you? -Bright Eyes

But just don't ask about my appetite. I didn't lose it tonight. No, it's been gone half my life. -Bright Eyes

So I talk, but no one can relate to the fear I had when I was younger. Somehow I knew I'd end up empty and alone. We all accept in the same tired way the gentle shift of continuous change. We confuse all the things that we say, to ourselves. The things we say to each other, always a lie, but at least we find some comfort for a while. -Bright Eyes

Deliver me, out of my sadness. Deliver me, from all of the madness. Deliver me, courage to guide me. Deliver me, strength from inside me. -Sarah Brightman

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. -Ashleigh Brilliant

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack at once. -Ashleigh Brilliant

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -Ashleigh Brilliant

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story. -Ashleigh Brilliant

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously. -Ashleigh Brilliant

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere — it is an art form in itself. -Anita Brookner

The ruins of what was once viewed as a perfect childhood lay stretched out before me, close enough to touch yet farther then I dared to imagine. The world had turned grey as if the earth itself had taken note that I too had turned grey. The bubble that was once my perfect existence had burst like the rest of them. My life was just one big trembling bubble waiting to be burst by one of those shattered truths. For it was as sharp as a shard of the broken mirror that I stood and stared into, my reflection as ugly and distorted as my life had come to be. -Elsa Brooks

Don't judge me too soon, I'm not trying to be understood. I'm not looking for your pity, I'm just the product of a fucked up childhood. If only they could see, if only they tried. They should want to get to know me. If they could just stop trying to decide whether I'm good, whether I'm bad. What's my mood? Am I happy or sad? I've never been either, I dont feel anymore, I'm numb to the pain. -Elsa Brooks

You know it's really gettin' to you when you take to tellin' lies. And you can try to fool your friends but you can't look 'em in the eye. There ain't no standin' tall in the shadow of the shame, when everybody knows that you're a victim of the game. -Garth Brooks

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me. -Jackson Browne

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. -Rita Mae Brown

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us. -Jean De La Bruyere

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. -Jean de la Bruyere

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. -Pearl S. Buck

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. -Buddha

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. -Buddha

Hunger is the supreme disease. -Buddha

Heredity is nothing but stored environment. -Luther Burbank

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all it's powers of acting and reasoning as fear. -Edmund Burke

Do you feel the way you hate? Do you hate the way you feel? Always closer to the flame. ever closer to the blade. -Bush

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. -Samuel Butler

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. -Lord Byron

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! -Lord Byron

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. -Lord Byron

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Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentially secret. It is the perfect crime. -Beatrix Campbell

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. -Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. -Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. -Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence. -Albert Camus

Help him beat me down, again. It’s all I know. So you want for me, some things we never see. Left alone to fill time. So empty all your thoughts now, turn around your hate, take a look at me. Hang on security. It’s all been overrated, this life you live, it’s not your own. There’s no one here to help you. -Candlebox

Now maybe some would say your life was sad but you lived it anyway. And so maybe your friends they stand around, they watch you crumble as you falter to the ground. -Candlebox

I don't care if you use me again. I don't care if you abuse me again. -The Cars

And I don't mean to flatter myself but everything I touch turns to shit. If there's one thing that I do well this would probably be it -Edie Carey

Caught in the grips of addiction. The future reads like fiction with contradictions and crystal ball predictions. You gotta want it from within. Yearn for your soul to strive. Break free from the chains that bind and hide the beautiful person you are inside. Part of you is torn between last night and this mornin'. Voices in your head are callin' but your mind is lookin' on to somethin' better -Jule Carey

She feels his love from the back of his hand. She feels she's nothin', gotta take what she can. Hidin' the pain, smilin' through tears. Drawin' on sweet memories helps her through the years. -Jule Carey

Innocent children stand on by. Don't know what to do. They watch their mother cry. They think it's their fault but little do they know it's just another way he'll break their hearts real slow. -Jule Carey

When you're with him it's like you're hypnotized. He's got you brainwashed to believe his lies. The pain runs deep behind your eyes, like a rainbow that's fading, movin' into the night. -Jule Carey

You know we live our lives, it seems, clingin' to the same old schemes. Isn't that what life is all about, always wantin' what you're without? I'll find a way to try to believe again, find a way to chase my dreams again. To feel the things I felt before, to share a heart and so much more. -Jule Carey

Tears your barriers down when home is where the war is now. Why judge yourself so harshly when all you really are is worthy to be so happy in this journey called life? Along the way you've fought your battles. Rainy days were filled with sadness. Those clouds will blow away, cause, the sun rises for you everyday. Don't take more than you give. Some take all that they can get from you and still they want more. -Jule Carey

Sometimes you're tired of standin' alone. They point the finger sayin' you're the strong one, but you feel you need a heart to lean on. Look around the scene, if ya don't smile you'll scream. Burnin' out of time and luck. Walk the distance. Scream resistance. -Jule Carey

Battle scars born to the soul. Survival is the only goal. World around with blades abound wanting always to cut us down. -Jule Carey

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies — all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. -Angela Carter

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. -Irene Claremont de Castillejo

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they will blur together in people's minds -sexandviolence- until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, 'The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.' -Dick Cavett

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. -Nicolas de Chamfort

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. -Coco Chanel

Can't say what I mean. Can't love from the heart. Can't trust in the mercy and the goodness in the world. Can't learn to accept that it's all right to struggle with the limits of this ordinary life. -Tracy Chapman

This life is a crime, a blessing and a curse. Chosen and unwanted, displaced and usurped. I'd run away but there is nowhere to go. So I'll stand and fight and hope and pray that the best is yet to come and we ain't seen nothing yet. -Tracy Chapman

Hunger only for a taste of justice. Hunger only for a world of truth 'cause all you have is your soul. Here I am waiting for a better day, a second chance, a little luck to come my way. A hope to dream, a hope that I can sleep again and wake in the world with a clear conscience and clean hands. 'Cause all that you have is your soul. -Tracy Chapman

You see, I’ve been climbing stairs but mostly stumbling down. You see, I’ve been reaching high but always losing ground. You see, I’ve conquered hills but I still have mountains to climb. And right now, right now, I’m doing the best I can, at this point in my life. -Tracy Chapman

Touched the mirror broke the surface of the water. Saw my true self all illusions shattered. -Tracy Chapman

Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome. -Chinese Proverb

Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyway. -Chinese Proverb

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality. -Shirley Chisholm

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. -Deepak Chopra

Our thinking and our behavior are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. -Deepak Chopra

I've been down in the shit so long that everything looks like up. -Clawfinger

There is a connection between neurosis and talent but there is also a connection between genius and mental illness. -John Cleese

Scars are great. They're this outward symbol of some personal pain. Just by looking at someone's scar, you know that person has suffered. Usually, or maybe almost exclusively, medically. But what about the suffering insane? We have no scars. That's why we have to make them ourselves. -Emily Colas

You can mind fuck something until it makes you crazy and it's all wasted energy. Spending so much time in your head. Because, the fact is, no matter what spin you use, you just don't know. -Emily Colas

Now I'm all alone. Kept the pain inside. Wanna touch the world 'cause I'm breathing fire. -Cold

Was it life I betrayed for the shape that I'm in? It's not hard to fail, it's not easy to win. Did I drink too much? Could I disappear? And there's nothing that's left but wasted years. -Cold

I'm feeling crossed. I take it inside, burn up the pain. My thoughts are strange. -Cold

Come on - oh my star is fading. And I see no chance of release and I know I'm dead on the surface but I'm screaming underneath. -Coldplay

She said that time is unfair to a woman her age. Now that wisdom has come, everything else fades. She said she realizes she's seen her better days. She said she can't look back to her days of youth. What she thought were lies she later found was truth. She said her daddy had dreams but he drank them away. And her mother's to blame for the way she is today. -Collective Soul

I know the reason why you keep your silence. No, you don't fool me. Well the hurt doesn't show but the pain still grows. It's no stranger to you or me. -Phil Collins

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always, for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. -Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. -Charles Caleb Colton

There was drama enough in my turbulent past: Tears and passion - I’ve used up a tankful. No news is good news, and long may it last, if nothing much happens, I’m thankful. -Wendy Cope

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. -Stephen R. Covey

If I had just one little spark inside of me I wouldn't be so scared of the dark side of me. I refuse to shrink and be something that I'm not just to be who you are, just to get what you have got. I won't accept restraint. I will not hide behind fear. I will be afraid but I'll stand up. I will stay right here. -Allison Crowe

You know I hold these in and I take them for myself. I'm covered in guilt but it's not my own. There isn't any reason for me to feel like I'm dying. I'm done with being afraid. I'm done with lying. And I am not an angel. I'm more like Mona Lisa. There's something hiding in me, there's always something behind my smile. -Allison Crowe

I woke up at half past 12, half in and out of dreaming. I could barely hear but I think that I was screaming. I tried to call out to you ‘be careful, they're right behind you’ but you turned to me and said, I'm dying and it's too late for anyone to save me. Step back for a moment and watch what's going on around you. You're so concerned with pleasing everyone, what about you? -Allison Crowe

I wanted the ocean to cover over me. I wanna sink slowly without getting wet. Maybe someday I won't be so lonely and I'll walk on water every chance I get. -Counting Crows

Wait for everyone to go away and in a dimly lit room where you've got nothing to hide, say your goodbyes. Tell yourself we'll read a note that says 'I'm sorry everyone, I'm tired of feeling nothing, goodbye.' Wash your face, dry your eyes 'cause you've been waiting a long time. You've been waiting a long, long time to fall down on your knees. -Counting Crows

The smell of hospitals in winter and the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters, but no pearls. -Counting Crows

I'm not sleeping anymore. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 a.m. All alone again but I've been through all this shit before. Spend my nights in self-defense, cry about my innocence but I ain't all that innocent anymore. -Counting Crows

She don't want no one around. She don't want anybody to see what she looks like when she's down ‘cause the truth's a sad place to be. -Counting Crows

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -Norman Cousins

At sunrise I fight to stay asleep 'cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place. 'Cause there's a hunger, a longing to escape from the life I live when I'm awake. -Creed

The peace is dead in my soul, I have blamed reasons for. My intentions, poor. Yes I'm the one who, the only one who would carry on this far -Creed

'What's wrong?' 'Why don't you get out and do something?' 'You'd feel better if you got up and took a shower.' When I've started down that long black spiral into depression, such well-intentioned comments are more hurtful than helpful. The first two simply have no answer and all three require answers or actions of which I am incapable and thus feed my feeling of hopelessness. -Kathy Cronkite

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got. -Sheryl Crow

I've been living in a sea of anarchy. I've been living on coffee and nicotine. I've been wondering if all the thing I've seen were ever real, were ever really happening. -Sheryl Crow

You are a raging sea I pull myself out every day. I plea insanity 'cause I can't leave but I can't stay. You say, won't you come find me? And yes is what I say. You don't bring me anything but down. -Sheryl Crow

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk. -James Crumley

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive. -ee cummings

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. -Marie Curie

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When such intense anger and hatred arises, it obliterates the best part of your brain, which is the ability to judge between right and wrong, and the long-term and short-term consequences of your actions. Your power of judgment becomes totally inoperable, it can no longer function. It is almost like you've become insane. -The Dalai Lama

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement. -Anthony D’Angelo

She says goodbye, I can't live knowing what this world has to offer to me ‘cause in the end it doesn't matter. In the end it's all shattered. -Daughter Darling

No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere. -W.H. Davies

You're just too high to see the point. You think your name is ‘pass the joint’ -Gavin DeGraw

Spending all my precious time. I wish I could press rewind, but it’s just play. Feels like fast-forward some days. Maybe it’s just a phase. Maybe I’m losing my mind -Gavin DeGraw

I’m surrounded by liars everywhere I turn. I’m surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn. I’m surrounded by an identity crisis everywhere I turn. Am I the only one to notice? I can’t be the only one who’s learned. I don’t want to be anything other than what I’ve been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think about me and I have peace of mind. I’m tired of looking ‘round rooms wondering what I gotta do or who I’m supposed to be. I don’t want to be anything other than me. -Gavin DeGraw

Stare at a memory. You, through the grapevine, heard the truth. It's good to learn from your mistakes, but that only works in youth. -Gavin DeGraw

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. -Don Delillo

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. -W. Edwards Deming

So they held her down while they took their turn. They had to break her. Said she was evil and she would burn. Then they raped her. -Destroyer 666

It is no exaggeration to say that among all living creatures, only man, because of his prehensile appendages, is capable of rape in the full meaning of this term that is, sexual possession of the female against her will. -Helen Deutsch

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. -Emily Dickinson

Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect when it began, or if there were a day when it was not. It has no future but itself; its infinite realms contain its past, enlightened to perceive new periods of pain. -Emily Dickinson

I just want to feel safe in my own skin. I just want to be happy again. I just want to feel deep in my own world. But I'm so lonely, I don't even want to be with myself anymore. -Dido

I am not an angry girl but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear. And imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling. -Ani DiFranco

I don't think I am strong enough to do this much longer. God, I wish I was stronger. -Ani DiFranco

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words. I'm afraid I've said too much. I'm afraid of who has heard me. -Ani DiFranco

I'm singing now because my tear ducts are too tired. And my brain is disconnected but my heart is wired. I make such a good statistic someone should study me now. Somebody's got to be interested in how I feel 'cause I'm here and I'm real. -Ani DiFranco

The windows of my soul are made of one way glass. Don't bother looking into my eyes. If there's something you want to know, just ask. -Ani DiFranco

I've mapped out my course, looks like it's uphill. I've got a heavy heart to carry but a very strong will. It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I haven't actually left yet. -Ani DiFranco

At night when you're asleep self hatred's going to creep in. And try to blame it on the devil whose bed you sleep in. And don't tell me what they did to you, as if you had no choice. -Ani DiFranco

One of these days you're gonna push too hard. We'll go on like we always do 'til you go too far. Yeah one of these days it's gonna reach the top, then it's all gonna spill and it's not gonna stop. Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile too much - watch the eyes. I know it 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything is ok and it is, 'til it's not. -Ani DiFranco

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence. -Ani DiFranco

I was floating above myself, watching her do just what you wanted. Poor little friendly ghost wondering why her whole house feels haunted. -Ani DiFranco

Real is real regardless of what you try to say or say away. Real is real relentless while words distract and dismay. Words that change their tune, though the story remains the same. Words that fill me quickly and then are slow to drain. Dialogues that dither down reminiscent of the way it likes to rain. Every screen a smoke screen. Oh, to dream just for a moment. The picture outside the frame. -Ani DiFranco

I focus on the quiet now and occasionally I'll fall asleep somehow and emptiness has its solace, in that there's nothing left to take. -Ani DiFranco

There’s a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there’s no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don’t want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation. -Ani DiFranco

There's never been an endeavor so strange as trying to slow the blood in my veins to keep my face blank as a stone that just sank until not a ripple remains. -Ani DiFranco

But a lesson must be lived in order to be learned, and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what I've earned. -Ani DiFranco

Survivors are part turtle. We are part potato bug. We know enough to go fetal 'til it's still up above. And you gotta crawl through the desert between when you hear it and when you can play it with your hands just to rendezvous with whoever you are when you finally understand. -Ani DiFranco

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. -Everett McKinley Dirksen

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for the truth. -Benjamin Disraeli

How do you sleep when you live with you lies? Out of your mouth, up from your mind. That kind of thinking starts a chain reaction. You are a time bomb ticking away. You need to release what you're feeling inside. Let out the beast that you're trying to hide. -Disturbed

Now I'm reaching out and I'm feeling nothing. You have created a rift within me. Now there have been several complications that have left me feeling nothing. I might say you were wrong to take it from me. Left me feeling nothing. Crawling now, I'm beaten down. Tortured now and I'm feeling nothing. -Disturbed

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. -Dorothea Dix

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. -Phil Donahue

Is not all life pathetic and futile? ...We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow, or worse than a shadow - misery. -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Once the stone you're crawling under is lifted off your shoulders, once the cloud that's raining over your head disappears, the noise that you'll hear is the crashing down of hollow years. -Dream Theater

Abuse victims are always the best actors. They have to be to spend their whole lives with the pain and shame, pretending there's nothing wrong. It's the greatest performance of all. -Richard Dreyfuss

There was a knife in the drawer. There was blood on the floor and everybody's looking for another way out. I don't want it anymore. -Drowningman

Tell me can you see these tears in my eyes. Are the cameras picking up the dying inside? Needles last night, did they stitch or did they stab? As long as we look good it can't be all bad. -Drowningman

Under everything, something that you can't see. I can't even believe something is wrong with me. You swear that all of this is real but sometimes I can't seem to feel. Nothing ever satisfies. One day I will realize. Am I really scared of something that I don't know? Do you even care what's really wrong? -Drowning Pool

All of the things that have happened, I'm surely to blame. Accept your fate, then you'll be well. But the truth is that it never ends. You can say that you've never been through hell, but you'll always lose another friend. Never felt so unimportant. Everything I've ever said has been taken in vain. Little girl so scared and frightened. All of the things that I do are still subject to change. -Drowning Pool

Try to find a way to fight the pain but it seems there's no way around it. Reaching for the sun but finding rain. I know I'll always be grounded. So much I have brought upon myself, can't believe that I'm still here. -Drowning Pool

My best excuse is that I'm drained from everything that keeps me sane. My sickness keeps me in control from everything you'll never know - what you say I could have been. -Drowning Pool

Accept your fate, then you'll be well, but the truth is that it never ends. You can say that you've been through hell but you'll always lose another friend. Never felt so unimportant. Everything I've ever said has been taken in vain. Little girl so scared and frightened. All of the things that I do are still subject to change. -Drowning Pool

Do I really want this? Sometimes I scare myself. I just can't let it go. Can you believe it? Everything happens for reasons I just don't know. -Drowning Pool

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. -Jean Dubuffet

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. -Alexandre Dumas

I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat. -Jennifer Greene Duncan

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. -Emile Durkheim

As long as there is rape there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in. -Andrea Dworkin

We need to end rape. We need to end incest. We need to end battery. We need to end prostitution and we need to end pornography. That means that we need to refuse to accept that these are a natural phenomena that just happen. -Andrea Dworkin

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air; it is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of 'I am afraid', we say, 'I don't want to' or 'I don't know how' or 'I can't'. -Andrea Dworkin

We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent — see, he's jealous, he cares — a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be. -Andrea Dworkin

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. -Wayne Dyer

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. -Wayne Dyer

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to some place else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. -Wayne Dyer

Chaos is a friend of mine. -Bob Dylan

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds. -Bob Dylan

Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth. -Bob Dylan

Please don't talk about tomorrow. I'm really not one to care. This world is filled with too much sorrow that nobody's heart should bear. -Bob Dylan

Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear. Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer. The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way, to ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay. I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame. And every time I pass that way I always hear my name. -Bob Dylan

My road it might be rocky. The stones might cut my face. But as some folks ain't got no road at all,they gotta stand in the same old place. Hey, hey, so I guess I'm doin' fine. -Bob Dylan

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Since we were parted I know I have changed. You'll see the blood that was shed in the lines on my face. But now that I've turned my back on the fight, I'm gonna steal back my life like a thief in the night. –eastmountainsouth

Shame is closely related to guilt, but there is a key qualitative difference. No audience is needed for feelings of guilt, no one else need to know, for the guilty person is his own judge. Not so for shame. The humiliation of shame requires disapproval or ridicule by others. If no one ever learns of a misdeed there will be no shame, but there still might be guilt. Of course, there may be both. The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it. -Paul Ekman

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. -George Eliot

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. -T. S. Eliot

Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. -T. S. Eliot

We see adolescents mourning for a lost childhood. -David Elkind

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. -Henry Havelock Ellis

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

But fire will always burn through skin and forgery and answer when you won't. -Emery

Too many mental problems got me snortin' coke and smokin' weed again. -Eminem

'Cause every time I go to try to leave something keeps pullin' on my sleeve. I don't wanna, but I gotta stay. These drugs really got a hold of me. 'Cause every time I try to tell them no they won't let me ever let them go. -Eminem

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. -Nathaniel Emmons

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. -English Proverb

Don't care what people say, just follow your own way. Don't give up and use the chance to return to innocence. That's not the beginning of the end. That's the return to yourself. The return to innocence. -Enigma

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. -Nora Ephron

Anger is a sign that something needs to change. ... Learning to use anger is no easy task. Yet the alternative -- letting anger use us -- makes us prisoners of our own minds. Anger is not the enemy, and we're not helpless in the face of it. It is only an energy -- one that, with practice, we can harness for our good. -Mark Epstein

They feed you on the guilt to keep you humble, keep you low. -Melissa Etheridge

I'm frightened by what I see but somehow I know that there's much more to come. Immobilized by my fear and soon to be blinded by tears. I can stop the pain if I will it away. -Evanescence

I still remember the world from the eyes of a child. Slowly those feelings were clouded by what I know now. Where has my heart gone? An uneven trade for the real world. I want to go back to believing in everything and knowing nothing at all. -Evanescence

Bound at every limb by my shackles of fear. Sealed with lies through so many tears. Lost from within, pursuing the end, I fight for the chance to be lied to again. -Evanescence

How can you see into my eyes like open doors? Leading you down into my core where I’ve become so numb. Without a soul my spirit sleeping somewhere cold, until you find it there and lead it back home. Wake me up inside. Wake me up inside. Call my name and save me from the dark. Bid my blood to run before I come undone. Save me from the nothing I’ve become. -Evanescence

I've been looking in the mirror for so long that I've come to believe my soul's on the other side. Oh, the little pieces falling shatter. Shards of me, too sharp to put back together, too small to matter, but big enough to cut me into so many little pieces. -Evanescence

You hold the answers deep within your own mind. Consciously, you've forgotten it. That's the way the human mind works. Whenever something is too unpleasant, too shameful for us to entertain, we reject it. We erase it from our memories but the answer is always there. -Evanescence

Scared to death to face reality. No one seems to hear your hidden cries. You'll have to face yourself alone but where will you go with no one left to save you from yourself? You can't escape the truth. I realize you're afraid but you can't abandon everyone. You can't escape. -Evanescence

Your face, it haunts my once pleasant dreams. Your voice, it chased away all the sanity in me. These wounds won't seem to heal. This pain is just too real. There's just too much that time cannot erase. -Evanescence

To inflict cruelties on defenseless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life. -Jon Evans

Hey, I don't even know you and I hate you. See all I know is that my girlfriend used to date you. How would you feel if she held you down and raped you? Tried and tried but she never could escape you. -Eve

You treat me like I am on fire, like I'm something to eat. You make me hate what I see when I see me. -Everclear

Promises mean everything when you're little and the world is so big. I just don't understand how you can smile with all those tears in your eyes and tell me everything is wonderful now. -Everclear

She is perfect in that fucked up way that all the magazines seem to want to glorify these days. -Everclear

You put yourself in stupid places, yes I think you know it's true, situations where it's easy to look down on you. Think you like to be the victim. Think you like to be in pain. I think you make yourself a victim almost every single day. -Everclear

I've seen the good side of bad and the down side of up and everything between. I licked the silver spoon, drank from the golden cup and smoked the finest green. -Everlast

I'm tired of being me, and I don't like what I see. I'm not who I appear to be. -Extreme

Looks like my brighter side has gotten a bit darker. I must have stepped over my four-leaf clover 'cause someone drank my half-filled cup of water. -Extreme

Can someone tell me why I'm not better off dead? I no longer deny these thoughts filling my head. I'm left to decide, for this path I've been led, if there's more to life than just death. -Extreme

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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. -Clifton Fadiman

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. -Barry J. Farber

When the body weeps tears of blood, we need to wonder what terrible sorrows cannot be spoken. When food that had tasted good suddenly feels like poison and has to be purged from the body, we should wonder what traumatic experiences exist that cannot be contained, metabolized, and integrated.... The body speaks of that which cannot be said in words, of secrets, lies, and trust that has been broken. -Sharon K. Farber

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. -William Faulkner

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness; not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. -William Feather

My pain is your pleasure. My agony excites you. Desperate for a change but change comes within. I'm not staying, not around you. I'm stronger than you think, much stronger than you. -Fear Factory

It's not so much that we are afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in-between that we fear. It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to. -Marilyn Ferguson

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal. -Marilyn Ferguson

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self- knowledge if you explore them. -Marilyn Ferguson

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. -Joanna Field

Suffocation, one breath is all I need to. One breath is all I need for strength to set myself free. Don't let me destroy myself. -Figure Four

All the pain inside. They put the poison in me. All the pain I caused. Poison in me. I saw everything they did. Somehow it seemed true. I took in everything they gave. Somehow it seemed true. How far can I go 'til it's too late? -Figure Four

And still I find I don't stop. I'll make a choice without thought and I move along. Forward. Everything counts. I could be the one who lives in fear. One who never takes the chance. Where would I be today? Living a life always scared of consequence. Where would I be today? I think for me it's balance. I ask myself today, what would I change if I could? Some things are unforgettable. Never fade away. -Figure Four

And every time I talk to you it sounds like you’re caught in a psychological flu. Don’t ever let them see you cheat, don’t ever let them see you bleed, don’t ever let them shake your hand, don’t ever let them believe that scam. Skinny, and it will make you cry. Skinny, and it makes you soft inside. Skinny, at least you will not die. -Filter

I've walked along the edge. I've seen my death. It came before my eyes and blinded by the light I realized too long I've been without the feeling of alive. Lost inside the fog I've been, lost inside my mind. And I forgot that I am free. I can be what I want to be. -Sarah Fimm

Since you said its fine I might believe. Dirty girls are easy to deceive. A penny for your thoughts or just to take your clothes off. I’d rather dull the pain than stand out in the rain to catch the virus. That seems to be the undercurrent of my insanity, the lowest layer that has been fused beneath my cycle of abuse. -Sarah Fimm

Every single minute takes an hour when you’re in the power of the beast. There’s hate breeding hatred inside of my head and there’s not that much left to be said in the red. Crying out, at the edge looking down. When you’ve fallen below all the shit you’ve been fed and you feel like your gonna go mad then you know you have come out alive more than dead. -Sarah Fimm

Crawl inside of me just enough to hurt this body. I know that you know how. Come inside of me you know it's exactly what I need. Your entourage is waiting by the car while I sit here bonding with some brand new scars. -Sarah Fimm

Not stronger, you're gripping onto the past, recalling what happened, happened too fast. His image is burning into your mind. You know you will never leave this behind. -Finger Eleven

Your spirit's so thin there's nothing left to take. Without rhyme or reason you point the other way. I don't need to watch as you go down in flames. -Finger Eleven

Is anything coming clearer smashing your mirror? Still you can see you're guilty. How far down would you fall if you never came up again? 'Cause you're so sick of it all and you want to change everything. Just how deep would you go to see through it all? -Finger Eleven

Morality would frown upon and decency look down upon the scapegoat fate's made of me. But I tell you now, my judge and jurors, intentions couldn't have been purer. My case is easy to see. I'm not looking for a clearer conscience, peace of mind after what I've been through. And before we talk of any repentance, try walking in my shoes. -Finger Eleven

Felt that I belonged and now I feel that gone. Where it all went wrong, I traced it all along. Back here again. There was something calling me to negativity. Dark covering me, shrouding every scene I’m cast in. Careful what you’re feeling on the inside. You should try to remember the good times and the high life. Are you feeling all right? Careful when you're feeling out of your mind. You should try to remember the strong lines in the spotlight ‘til you're feeling all right. -Finger Eleven

Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future. -Doug Firebaugh

Once I lived on a shelf and I painted pictures of the world I'd see. I convinced myself that I had some kind of objectivity. But when you're so far gone that the hurt starts to show, when you're so far off, I thought by now you'd know I was just hiding from myself. -Stefanie Fix

Everything comes and goes in extremes. You say you know what you want, you just don't know what you mean. And you would take it on faith if there was something to believe but all of life's changes just leave you empty. -Stefanie Fix

I was trying to be something when my own skin caved right in And there I stood flesh and blood, looking like the thing I really was - a hollow mess of chaos and stress. You can run but you sure as hell cannot hide from yourself. Now the more I become all that I am the less I believe of what I understand. The world can sure play tricks on you. It can lift you up and tell you everything is fine, when it don't feel right. And you don't have the guts to trust your own insight. Well take it from me you can always see the truth when you want to. -Stefanie Fix

I am learning not to say I was raped, but a man raped me. Grammatically, this is the difference between the passive and active voice. As I often tell my writing students, the active voice is preferred unless you are trying to hide responsibility. -Patricia Weaver Francisco

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc. -Anne Frank

The truth is that as the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. -Viktor E.Frankl

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. -Sigmund Freud

We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other. -Sigmund Freud

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. -Sigmund Freud

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill. -Sigmund Freud

From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -Sigmund Freud

It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger, it will soon have your whole hand. -Sigmund Freud

The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life. -Sigmund Freud

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. -Betty Friedan

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. -Erich Fromm

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it. -Erich Fromm

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. -Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed. -Robert Frost

Another pill I'm to consume to make me learn to feel again. Is followed by another one to make me lose the same. -Fuel

Shades of sun in my head, blistered skin turning red. I can’t complain. It’s something to do, cloud my mind and erase you –Fuel

Swallowed the pill. Drank to the fill. All these things I carry now, in this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now. Try to hold the world there sinking, swimming in a paper cup. Try to own the one beneath the skin. Held up to the flame ’till singeing, skin begins to draw and tuck. Never told there’s a chance to win. –Fuel

Troubled days cloud my eyes, stole the sun from my skies. And in this darkness I am tossing, turning, lying wide awake. Hold my breath; wish that I could find a place to hideaway. –Fuel

And I sat when I should have stood. And I swallowed when I should have spit. But I only recognize me in pictures taken long ago and all the changes simply haunt and never go away. A friend will tell me when I hit hell - I may not feel the change. Held my eyes closed for too long. Just before I go, don't you offer any sweet advice 'cause where were all your shoulders when I needed them so long ago? And now with legs weak and weary from this silly dance, with a suitcase full of memories, I pack my bags and slowly drift away. -Fuel

And so we danced alone but pain is always so betrayed with our eyes. But I know now, on hearts the faithless can't rely. Do dreams make no sound as they die? Remember the nights by the riverside? No secrets from our sins and the world would not subside, and the worst thing is knowing that I'll survive. -Fuel

Every thought felt as true or allowed to be accepted as true by your conscious mind takes root in your subconscious, blossoms sooner or later into act and bears its own fruit. -Funkadelic

So I'm dancing to a new beat and it came to me in bed. My veins became a strain of light that I let to flow instead. And a wish came to me like Peter Pan at my window and said evolve your destiny child and you'll never walk alone, no you'll never walk alone. But travel to the land of surrender ‘til you can't cry no more ’til you can't, till you can't, and you'll never walk alone. -Nelly Furtado

I feel like falling asleep and never waking up. It's not that my glass is empty but I need another cup. When all of the doors around me just shut one by one, I feel like falling asleep but the party's just begun. -Nelly Furtado

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I go mental. I'll try to be gentle. When I grow up I'll be stable. When I grow up I'll turn the tables. -Garbage

She's not the kind of girl who likes to tell the world about the way she feels about herself. She takes a little time in making up her mind. She doesn't want to fight against the tide -Garbage

I tried hard to mend my wicked ways. The damage's done, there's nothing left to save -Garbage

Now there's something you should know about, I'm chronically depressed. I internalize my hatred and sacrifice myself. -Garbage

I know how to hurt. I know how to heal. I know what to show and what to conceal. I know when to talk and I know when to touch. No one ever died from wanting too much.-Garbage

I must confess it can feel good to feel pain, like breaking waves or getting caught in the rain -Garbage

I lie around in bed all day just staring at the walls. Hanging 'round bars at night wishing I had never been born and give myself to anyone who wants to take me home. -Garbage

Such is the stuff of waking nightmares, incipient madness, the sort of now-bewildered but soon-to-be-deranged thoughts that cause once well-balanced people to peek under their beds at night, suspect that their phones are tapped, and, in time, become certain that sinister forces are monitoring their every move. -Joseph Garber

The headshrinkers call it paranoia, and when it gets bad they put you away. Because, after all, people who think everyone in the world wants to kill them can be dangerous. -Joseph Garber

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is a world of difference. -Greta Garbo

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening. -Greta Garbo

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. -John Gardner

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. -John William Gardner

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. -Janeane Garofalo

I don't consider cynical to be negative. Many people accuse me of that, but I'm not. I don't understand why just because you have a strong opinion or you're pragmatic, you're considered edgy or negative or mean-spirited. -Janeane Garofalo

I went home, locked the door and I said nothing. I’m so angry, can’t you see all my scars? -Marci Geller

Tell my secrets to the wind. Wonder if they'll say I've sinned? But if I never say a word, I'll erase the scene that's inside of me. And if I keep it all to myself, I'll let it be. Hide the signs that someone was here, see his face inside my fear. But I'll laugh as loud as I can, and he'll think that maybe he dreamt it too, and I'll stare right into that face, that place that cuts right through. -Marci Geller

I’ll close my eyes and maybe, all of the screams will leave me alone. Here with myself to deal with, and nobody even mention my name. But someday the screams will silence. Still in the game. -Marci Geller

See her look away as she tries to hide the pain of the memories she keeps in her purse. Don’t you ever notice she calls out through her acts of desperateness? She hides the mess. Oh, but she is strong, oh she carries on. -Marci Geller

Well hurray for me. I didn't do that thing that I always do, swallow all this pain with that excuse. And I know, that there is good in all these fragile choices so I stand up when the world falls down on me. I stand up when the world falls down on me. I feel all this nothing. I feel all this numb. I try to steal some faith from this thing that I've become. -Marci Geller

Will you heal my world? Will you make me everything that I want to be? Will you heal my world? Never thought it’d come down to me versus the pill. -Marci Geller

OK, I had another bad day, but I’ll forgive me this time – again. You see it doesn’t even have to make sense anymore. I’ll just keep scraping myself off the floor. OK, I’ll give it one more try, and if it doesn’t go exactly as planned, I hope I never ever turn my back on all those dreams, ‘cause they’re the only thing real it seems. -Marci Geller

It's time to face my feelings. It's time to face my fears. To walk on through the fire and take time for the tears. I know that peace will be there, right on the other side and pain will wash from my heart with the tears I cry. -Geri

In the darkest part of me is the deep place I fall. My disease lives in there. I hear the addicts call. So lost in thoughts and a quest for some relief, wanting to run from the pain to the peace. But I'll sit with these sorrows and I'll feel the feelings near. Then I'll learn I won't perish and find my courage here. -Geri

Seems like your life keeps getting harder and harder. Everywhere you turn you find the same. Come to confess you can’t hold out any longer. The world on your shoulder’s too much strain. -Ruth Gerson

Yesterday you saw the other side. I was ten miles high, waking up with dandelions and a quiet head. You said give up your soul searching for some contentment. Yesterday flew by like Nike. She never gets tired. Catching hold of her, it would be like catching hold of fire. -Ruth Gerson

Some things are better left unspoken, some things are better left undone. Maybe better to be broken, maybe richer to have none. Like the wind hitting fire, like lightning on water, when the reach of desire holds out her hand for you. -Ruth Gerson

Like a widow lives, day by day, she finds she can’t ignore the empty space. She’s counting sheep, she never sleeps -Ruth Gerson

Don’t say I’m going crazy. See I just forget my place. It’s not the fool you make me. It’s just a cruel mistake. You called it right... far from the explanation of my infirmity. I’m weak with connotation. You reek of certainty. You called it right. -Ruth Gerson

I stand aside and I take the lies to my face and down to my bone and quietly scrape at the edges of grace till I slip off the shape of her stone. I wanna know the other road; I want to break off a piece of my own fate. I’m not alone; I’ve seen the souls that sit asleep too long too wake. -Ruth Gerson

I'll never be satisfied, become a recluse, enjoy the abuse. It's better to just get high. -Amanda Ghost

I heard you say today you've thrown your life away, but dreams of happiness aren't wasted. You tried to reach the moon. You grew up too soon, denied the freedom that you tasted. -Amanda Ghost

I never cry for sadness. I cut off from the pain. I won't forget your madness. -Amanda Ghost

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. -Kahlil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. -Kahlil Gibran

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. -Kahlil Gibran

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights. -Kahlil Gibran

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. -Kahlil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. -Kahlil Gibran

Habits of thought persist through the centuries and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine. -Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If you don't expect too much from me, you might not be let down. -Gin Blossoms

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. -Ellen Glasgow

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. -Jan Glidewell

Can't you see what this pain, has fuckin' done to me? I'm alive, and still kickin'! What you see, I can't see. -Godsmack

When you get so high that you're wanting to die but everything around you is turning green. When you get so low and I know you've been feeling like a dried out leaf in a summer breeze. -Godsmack

Can you feel it? I gotta live it with every day. I cant take the pressure, I'm goin' insane. Now go away! -Godsmack

You've made me out to be responsible for your self-inflicted misery and never felt like this before. Don't be surprised to see that I have nothing left for you to bleed when you come crawling back for more. -Godsmack

I am your peace of mind, confusing all your time. I'm running through your veins. I am your pain. I thought by now you'd know I'll never let you go. -Godsmack

Runnin' in circles, confusion is calling my name. Hidin' inside of this poisoning madness again. I'm tired, I'm broken, I'm walking along with the dead. Will I ever feel like I once did? -Godsmack

Low? I'm on empty. Try to erase all the bad times. Free? I don't seem to be. My soul remains tied to your life. Every breath you breathe deep, I feel you circulating through me. I'll never forgive myself again. I'm so sick and tired of making the same mistakes. -Godsmack

Fell in a river of illusion and apathy. Drowning in a self-induced confusion -Godsmack

And now I look through my minds eye and see where my past needs to rest. Its always disturbed by these voices that echo inside of my head. Another way that I can hide, another reason to crawl inside and get away from everything and everywhere and everyone. -Godsmack

Can’t find the answers. I’ve been crawling on my knees looking for anything to keep me from drowning. Promises have been turned to lies. Can’t even be honest inside. Now I’m running backward watching my life wave me goodbye. -Godsmack

Tragic visions. You slowly stole my life. You tore away everything, cheating me out of my time. -Godsmack

We don't have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institute of the universe. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I eat only sleep and everyone thinks I'm dumb but I'm smart because I've figured it all out. I am slimmer and I am burning my skin off little by little until I reach bone and self. Until I get to where I am essential, until I get to where I am. -Golden Palominos

That, of course, is the devil's bargain of addiction: a short-term good feeling in exchange for the steady meltdown of one's life. -Daniel Goldman

You can't fight the tears that ain't coming, or the moment of truth in your lies. When everything feels like the movies, you bleed just to know you're alive. -Goo Goo Dolls

Do you like the way you feel? Nothing hurts when no one's real. -Goo Goo Dolls

They painted up your secrets with the lies they told to you. And the least they ever gave you was the most you ever knew. And I wonder where these dreams go when the world gets in your way. What's the point in all this screaming? No one's listening anyway. -Goo Goo Dolls

Misery is a communicable disease. -Martha Graham

I see her as a little girl, hiding in her room. She takes another bath and sprays her mama's perfume to try to wipe away the scent he left behind, but it haunts her mind. You see, she's just his little rag, nothing more than just a waif, and he's mopping up his need. She is tired and afraid. Maybe she'll find a way through these awful years to disappear. -Amy Grant

When all goodbyes are said and done and nighttime finds you home, are you all right to spend a night of being all alone? Or do you hide between the lines of conversations past? A role of words. A heart, unheard, that stands behind a mask. I'm raining on the inside; my heart wells up with tears that start to pour. -Amy Grant

Medication is slow and it's when it kicks in that my mind chooses to go, my feel better begins. Just when I get attached it ends. It's insane so I remain a psycho. -Macy Gray

All hail the higher, I'm higher every day and there is a will. There is a skill, a powder, a pill to make me stay that way. Happiness for a day or 2, that's my limit. I'm a junkie, how 'bout you? -Macy Gray

No man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble. -Sidney Greenberg

I still don’t know why I didn’t manage to keep a better footing on the slippery path called life, why some people go through it straight down the main road while others wander endlessly around dim alleyways. -Einar Mar Gudmundsson

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Enough already with the feeling. I'm so sick of it. We don't walk around showing all of our feelings all of the time. If we did, we'd be put in a mental hospital. -Margie Haber

The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. -Dag Hammarskjold

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. -Dag Hammarskjold

When you touch a body, you touch the whole person, the intellect, the spirit, and the emotions. -Jane Harrington

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? -Sydney J. Harris

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' -Sydney J. Harris

Ask me a question then I will mess up. I'll tell a lie and I'll never fess up. I’m pretty lost but I don't wanna be found. No no no no no. My tiny screams don't make a sound. -Juliana Hatfield

Yearning for a drug that doesn't exist, using your mouth like a fist. That smile can't even show on your face. You gotta get out of this place. -Juliana Hatfield

She's living life like a dream, with a false sense of self-esteem. I wish she'd trade places with me. -Juliana Hatfield

My body is a shell, A broke and empty shell. A chemical well. A little private hell. -Juliana Hatfield

But I am a liar, that's the truth, go home and think it through. That's the harm in mystery, all you know is what you see. -Juliana Hatfield

And on and on it goes. Nobody knows my heart's on fire, but my blood is frozen. Take a look and see how alone and free anyone can be. Just never let 'em see you sweat. Little pieces, all they get. So why do you still feel like this? It's a mystery how I seem to be something less than myself. -Juliana Hatfield

I screwed it up again. I made another friend, a desperado, named trouble. He showed his gun to me, he took my money. I think I understand what makes a boy become a bad man. -Juliana Hatfield

I count the days. How long will it take? You're selling tickets to the self- destruction. You want the world to see your pain. I didn't come this far to go back again. Bad goodbye - you take the easy way out. You wanted so bad to be bad. It's an easy way out. Your daily bath can't keep your conscience clean. You're unequal to the task and you've got the nerve to be weak. -Juliana Hatfield

Help me with my diet. The other brats they won't be quiet. Can someone give me something to make me beautiful and thin? A plastic surgeon maybe could suck the fat right out of me and if I die or if it hurts I can sue somebody for all he's worth. Who is looking out for me when I close my eyes and leap? It's my life to lead but it's not my responsibility. -Juliana Hatfield

Each revelation, knowledge earned through blood and sweat. My scars are worn with pride. I count on no one but myself. -The Haunted

If I shed my blood in vain, could I rest forever? Should I lay my soul to waste? No one lives forever. A candle it flickers before my eyes. I feel so at ease as I start to realize. No more frustration as the thought frees my mind. I blow out the candle, one last goodbye. -The Haunted

Do you know how it feels, staring down the barrel of a gun? Everyday more or less the same, just a wait `til your days are done. Work your fingers to the bone, grind your body underneath the stone. Stains of red flash across your back, seize the power to return the attack. I've seen through all the lies. I'm evil undisguised. If you wonder what drove me insane, take a look at my scars. They go deeper than the skin, -The Haunted

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a need within us for it. -Louise Hay

When depression is stigmatized as illness and weakness, a double blind is created: If we admit to depression, we will be stigmatized by others; if we feel it but do not admit it, we stigmatize ourselves, internalizing the social judgment. The only remaining choice may be truly sick behavior: to experience no emotion at all. -Lesley Hazelton

I did a lot of things in my life to get away from what had happened to me. I drank, I smoked, I did drugs, I had sex. ... I did anything I could to get the shame out of my life. -Anne Heche

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. -Heinrich Heine

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. -Ernest Hemingway

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. -Ernest Hemingway

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. -Katharine Hepburn

It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering. -Judith Herman

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone. -Hermann Hesse

Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. -D. J. Hicks

He will never see the way he treats me is a crime. Somebody oughta lock him up but I'm the one who'd done the time. -Faith Hill

It started out good, they usually do. Then one day it's taken for granted 'Til words become weapons and love turns to pain. Oh, why is she still holding on? She says living without him is too hard to face and I try to imagine myself in her place. But with well-chosen words and well placed tears she forgives him in two seconds flat. Oh, I'd like to think that I would be stronger than that. Where's her head? Where's her nerve? Does part of her think this is all she deserves? -Faith Hill

She said, ‘All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream’. –Faith Hill

Hard times are fallin' on you. Even when you smile I see the hurt come through and I know it feels like it's never gonna end. You say nothin's been right for a long time and every step you take is an uphill climb. I see you're reachin' out so let me tell you friend that better days are comin' around. I know you feel like the whole world's gone and let you down but better days they're comin' for you. -Faith Hill

This is your life, and welcome to it. It's just workin' and drinkin' and dreams. Ad on TV says 'Just Do It'. Hell if I know what that means. -Faith Hill

In the stress to be the best I've done it all. I've slammed the doors, I've jammed the locks, I've laid the bricks, I've built the walls. No one could tell me back then why joy eluded me. Kept bumping into that misery locked up deep down inside of me. -Faith Hill

Never strike your wife - even with a flower. -Hindu Proverb

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. -Hippocrates

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. -Eric Hoffer

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. -Eric Hoffer

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage. -Eric Hoffer

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem; we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling. -Eric Hoffer

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure. -Celeste Holm

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these are 'what might have been'. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Insanity is often logic of an accurate mind overtasked. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

My head was never quiet. Quiet is an in-between point, implying a balance between noise and silence, between the strange blackouts I began to have – pure silence, not sleeplike, but deathlike – and the hellish shrieking jumble of my own thoughts and the voices of the world. -Marya Hornbacher

...now maybe I was really sick. Maybe I was getting good at this, good enough to scare people. Maybe I would almost die, and balance just there, at the edge of the cliff, wavering while they gasped and clutched one another’s arms, and win acclaim for my death-defying stunts. -Marya Hornbacher

I was fifteen, sad, in search of balance, and trying very hard to become someone other than me. Not uncommon in teenagers. Teenagers, like me, desperately hitting the gas to get from zero to sixty in seconds flat will plow down anything in their path on their way out of Norman Rockwell hell, including their past. Including themselves. Teenagers do not know that both past and self will rise up like flattened cartoons on the road, unflatten themselves, and follow them everywhere they go. A shadow, or ghost. -Marya Hornbacher

Normally there is a self-protective mechanism in the psyche that will dissuade the brain from truly dangerous activity, regardless of how desirable the effects of that activity may be. For example, a woman may wish to lose weight but have an essential respect for her physical self and therefore refrain from unhealthy eating. I had no such self-protective mechanism, no such essential self-respect. When you have no sense of physical integrity – a sense that your own health is important, that your body, regardless of shape, is something that requires care and feeding and a basic respect for the biological organism that it is – a very simple, all-too-common, truly frightening thing happens. You cross over from a vague wish to be thinner into a no-holds-barred attack on your flesh. -Marya Hornbacher

People who’ve been to hell and back develop a certain sort of self-righteousness. There is a tendency to say: I have an addictive personality, I am terribly sensitive, I’m touched with fire, I have scars. There is a self-perpetuating belief that one simply cannot help it, and this is very dangerous. It becomes an identity in and of itself. It becomes its own religion, and you wait for salvation, and you wait, and wait, and wait, and do not save yourself. If you saved yourself and did not wait for salvation, you’d be self-sufficient. How dull. -Marya Hornbacher

My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet aids, plastic surgery, a pop culture wherein the hyper-cool, blank-eyes supermodel was a hero. This is the intellectual and emotional equivalent of eating nothing but candy bars – you get malnourished and tired. We grew up in a world in which the surface of the thing is infinitely more important than its substance – and where the surface of the thing had to be “perfect”, urbane, sophisticated, blasé, adult. I would suggest that if you grow up trying constantly to be and adult, a successful adult, you will be sick of being grown up by the time you’re old enough to drink. -Marya Hornbacher

All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable. My theory was simple: I was a screwed up person. The phrase “self-fulfilling prophecy” comes to mind. -Marya Hornbacher

I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can’t quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death. -Marya Hornbacher

I did this, went about mentally seducing men just for kicks. The point was never the sex. I hadn’t ever enjoyed sex much, and wouldn’t for several years. The point was the game and the game was not simply to get someone into bed. Men are embarrassingly easy to seduce. The game was to get them to fall in love with you first, or get them to think they were in love with you, think you were the most astonishing woman they’d ever met in their entire lives, and if things went according to plan, fuck them up forever. -Marya Hornbacher

I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgment from my brain when I get my head set on something. Everything is done at all costs. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense, pretty much. -Marya Hornbacher

If I were to describe the path between point A and point B, I would have to detail a convoluted, crisscrossed, almost blind stumble through a briar patch: the doublings-back, the stumbles into different, smaller rabbit holes, the sudden plunking down and howling with rage. In the end, I would have to point out that my stumble is specific to me. Your stumble will be different. You will avoid potholes I fell headlong into and find yourself tripping into quicksand I missed. -Marya Hornbacher

An eating disorder is not usually a phase and it is not necessarily indicative of madness. It is quite maddening, granted, not only for the loved ones of the eating disordered person but also for the person herself. It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of strength. A wish to prove that you need nothing, that you have no human hungers, which turns on itself and becomes a searing need for the hunger itself. It is an attempt to find an identity, but ultimately it strips you of any sense of yourself, save the sorry identity of "sick". -Marya Hornbacher

Nothing—not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state—will make the past disappear. Only time and patience heal things. I learned that cutting up your arms in an attempt to make the pain move from inside to outside, from soul to skin, is futile. That death is a cop-out. -Marya Hornbacher

So many means of self-destruction, so little time. -Marya Hornbacher

I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no. -Marya Hornbacher

When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. -Marya Hornbacher

Getting lost in the thought that you might be imagining everything, you might be dreaming your life. You look at your hand in front of your face, surrounded by light, and your heart thrums as you think: I'm dreaming, I'm not even here, I don't exist. It is too fascinating, the thought that you AREN'T -Marya Hornbacher

Life seemed like too long a time to have to stick around, a huge span of years through which one would be required to tap-dance and smile and be Great! and be Happy! and be Amazing! and be Precocious! I was tired of my life by the time I was sixteen. I was tired of being too much, too intense, too manic. I was tired of people, and I was incredibly tired of myself. -Marya Hornbacher

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions. -Marya Hornbacher

There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. -Marya Hornbacher

So when and how will I know? How much further do I have to go? How much longer until I finally know? Because I'm looking and I just can't see what's in front of me. Show me what it's for, make me understand it. I've been crawling in the dark, looking for the answer. Is there something more than what I've been handed? I've been crawling in the dark looking for it. -Hoobastank

I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. -Whitney Houston

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. -Elbert Hubbard

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. there is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. -Aldous Huxley

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. -Aldous Huxley

At any given moment, life is completely senseless. -Aldous Huxley

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations. -I Ching

I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I'm ashamed, lying naked on the floor. -Natalie Imbruglia

So pardon me while I burst into flames. I've had enough of the world and its peoples' mindless games. -Incubus

I take a look around. It’s evident the scene has changed. And there are times when I feel improved, improved upon the past. Then there are times when I can’t seem to understand at all and yes it seems as though I’m goin’ nowhere...really fucking fast. Nowhere fast. Will I ever get to where I’m going? If I do, will I know when I am there? If the wind blew me in the right direction would I even care? -Incubus

And don't you ever feel like they're all circling around? They keep calling to me and I keep falling down. I'd rather be alone and lonely lying on that ground than in those grips again. Well I could take it, I could leave it you know. Ha, that's what I've said to myself. I've been down there so many times, you know, and it hurts like nothing else. 'Cause I'm losin' touch, I've been slippin' away, I've been losin' too much. -Indigo Girls

She won't recover from her losses. She's not chosen this path but she watches who it crosses. Maybe move to the right, maybe move to the left, so we can see all her pain she wears like a banner on her chest. And we all say it's sad and we think it's a shame. And she's called to our attention but we do not call her name - the girl with the weight of the world in her hands - 'cause we're busy with our happiness and busy with our plans. I wonder if alone she wants it taken from her hands. -Indigo Girls

You say you want to live for today before today is lost, but when the returns come in, do they balance the cost? I can see your four wheels spin, I can smell smoke from the blaze but we aren't moving anyway, if you're seeing past those rose colored shades. -Indigo Girls

I have nights with matches and knives, leaning over ledges only two flights up. Cutting my heart, burning my soul. Nothing left to hold. Nothing left but blood and fire. -Indigo Girls

One more for the sequel to the heartache. How much more can we take? Won't you tell me how long will we be victims of fear, with a man and a gun and the 'day after' fear? -Indigo Girls

Her life is a show. One act follows the other everywhere she goes. She takes the leading role. She never plays herself, save for the time she's on the stage. Color her black or white, now either one reflects the teardrops. One extreme for the other, nothing in-between. Color her white for the princess she could be. Color her black for the troubled child she plays so well. Well, she's dancing through hell, on a dream. -Indigo Girls

I don't know when I noticed life was life at my expense. The words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence. The dreams came like needy children tugging at my sleeve. I said I have no way of feeding you so leave. -Indigo Girls

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m. to seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend. And I woke up with a headache, like my head against a board. Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before. And I went in seeking clarity. -Indigo Girls

I think myself into jail. I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose. Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. I had a lot of good intentions - sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension. Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts, but my life is more than a vision. The sweetest part is acting after making a decision. I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts - my life is a part of the global life. I found myself becoming more immobile when I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything. -Indigo Girls

Sometimes I ask to sneak a closer look, skip to the final chapter of the book and then maybe steer us clear from some of the pain it took to get us where we are, this far, yeah. But the question drowns in its futility and even I have got to laugh at me. No one gets to miss the storm of what will be, just holding on for the ride. -Indigo Girls

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. -Robert Green Ingersoll

Once upon a time I'd take a drink and I'd feel fine but now it hurts me everywhere. Sick secrets I can't share, nothing left to say. I always knew it'd be that way. –Injected

Beat her, mistreat her - do anything that you please. Bite her, excite her, make her get down on her knees. Abuse her, misuse her - she can take all that you've got. Caress her, molest her. She always does what you want. -Iron Maiden

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -Washington Irving

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I longed for someone to confide in, but I had been so deceived that I had lost all confidence. -Harriet Jacobs

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. -William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. -William James

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. -William James

Which of my feelings are real? Which of the 'me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither. -Kay Redfield Jamison

One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. And the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all. -Jefferson Airplane

Mirror, mirror on the wall who’s the dumbest of them all? Insecurities keep growing. Wasted energies are flowing. Anger, pain and sadness beckon. Panic sets in in a second. Be aware it’s just your mind and you can stop it anytime. -Jem

The places I’ve been, the people I’ve seen, plans that I made start to fade. The sun’s setting gold, thought I would grow old, it wasn’t to be. And I can’t believe how I’ve been wasting my time. -Jem

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them. -Jerome Klapka Jerome

You wake up to realize your standard of living somehow got stuck on survive. -Jewel

Pieces of us die every day, as though our flesh were hell. Such injustice, as children we are told that from God we fell. Where were my angels? Where's my golden one? Where's my hope now that my heroes have gone? Some are being beaten, some are being born. And some can't tell the difference anymore. -Jewel

Put on my PJs and hop into bed. I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead. I try to tell myself it'll be all right. I just shouldn't think anymore tonight. -Jewel

Don't think too hard. Don't think too fast. Don't ever give away what you can't take back. Don't try and understand what you can't comprehend. -Jewel

It's not what I can do for anybody. It's what their body can do for me. -Jewel

It's not your little boy smile. It's not your little boy name. It's those big boy hands that are the ones to blame. I tried to be unlovable, why couldn't you do the same? -Jewel

Not a tea party that I would attend. Wilting roses have no friends. Life don’t mean much to a girl with blurry views. Even thorns in the yard are hiding from you. Cutting yourself with blades of grass you think about now. I think about the past. They try to pretend they are not afraid, little girl in a rabbit cage. There’s not much here for me to do. How much mind have you got to lose? -Jodelle

Two wrongs have no right. Designed to be discarded with a kiss and a bite. The moon is a coward to hide from the sun. The clouds are breaking and the damage is done. -Jodelle

She’s a magazine bombshell, cries in the bathroom so her waist won’t swell. And the woman on the news says nothing’s wrong. Her soul’s in a black bag sweet girl gone. Stick figure, nothing left but your picture. I can’t take anymore. Light as a feather, stiff as a board. Feet like anchors treading thin ice. Tooth pick legs trample her life. –Jodelle

I've been livin' for the moment but I just can't have my way and I'm afraid to go to sleep 'cause tomorrow is today. People tell me life is sweeter but I don't hear what they say. Nothing comes to change my life so tomorrow is today. I don't care to know the hour 'cause it's passing anyway. I don't have to see tomorrow 'cause I saw it yesterday. So I listen for an answer but the feeling seems to stay and what's the use of always dreaming if tomorrow is today? -Billy Joel

Well it's been quite a while since I lifted my head and I'm sure the light will hurt my eyes. I see the way that I been spendin' my days and reality has caught me by surprise. I was dreamin' of tomorrow so I sacrificed today and it sure was a grand waste of time. -Billy Joel

While in these days of quiet desperation, as I wander through the world in which I live, I search everywhere for some new inspiration but it's more than cold reality can give. -Billy Joel

Everybody's got a million questions; everybody wants to know the score. What you went through, it's something you should be over now. Everybody wants to hear the secrets that you never told a soul before; and it's not that strange, because it wouldn't change what happens anyhow. But you swore to yourself a long time ago there were some things that people never needed to know; this is one that you keep, that you bury so deep no one can tear it out. And you can't talk about it 'cause you're following a code of silence. You're never gonna lose the anger, you just deal with it in a different way. And you can't talk about it; and isn't that a kind of madness to be living by a code of silence when you've really got a lot to say? -Billy Joel

We are convinced that happiness is never found, and each believes it is possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. -Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. -Samuel Johnson

As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside. -Sonia Johnson

I toyed with the idea of going to find another war where I could at least feel alive. I was so numb that it took terror to make me feel anything. -Bess Jones

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but we wish we didn't. -Erica Jong

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. -Erica Jong

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -Erica Jong

The fact was that neither one of these attitudes made any sense and I knew it. Neither dominating nor being dominated. Neither bitchiness nor servility. Both were traps. Both led nowhere except toward the loneliness both were designed to avoid. But what could I do? The more I hated myself, the more I hated myself for hating myself. It was hopeless. -Erica Jong

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. -Erica Jong

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. -Janis Joplin

You say you're starving but you're not hungry. You've lost you're appetite. You say you never will ever understand. Maybe one day you will own your pain. You won’t have to find somebody else to blame. Until then you are running and hiding and you can't find your way back home. -Marcia Juell

I've taken all my pills but I'm still not sleepy. Tried to trick myself into thinking that I'm not awake, that it's only a dream. -Gary Jules

They never tell you truth is subjective. They only tell you not to lie. They never tell you there's strength in vulnerability. They only tell you not to cry. -Gary Jules

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. -Carl Jung

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. -Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. -Carl Jung

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. -Carl Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. -Carl Jung

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. -Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -Carl Jung

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Breathe it in and breathe it out and pass it on, it's almost out. We're so creative, so much more. We're high above but on the floor. It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side. -K's Choice

Filter all of your emotions, fake you’re never low. Or face the one you fear. You’re living through another year. Another year to lie. Another year goes by. -K's Choice

Life is easy when you fake it, right until you realize our happiness is unrelated to anything you have inside. And it doesn’t feel right. And I’m mostly very tired. -K's Choice

So much has changed and been rearranged and I see that I’ve lost what made me so young and incredibly strong and never ever wrong. -K's Choice

Take a rope and tie these thoughts of mine down until I'm fine. Don't ask me if I'm hungry. I'm not sick. Something's tearing me up, brick by brick. -K's Choice

Isn't it interesting, and doesn't it cut close to home, that without the 't', the word diet becomes 'die'?; you can chose not to diet, and in doing so, choose not to 'die yet'. -Susan Kano

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. -Irene C. Kassorla

Advice is probably the only free thing which people won't take. -Lothar Kaul

My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my negations. When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep; when I was supposed to speak, I was silent; when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy - the world. They didn't matter a whit to the world, of course and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings. They proved my existence. All my integrity seemed to lie in saying no. -Susanna Kaysen

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. -Susanna Kaysen

It was my misfortune — or salvation — to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. -Susanna Kaysen

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside. -Susanna Kaysen

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -Helen Keller

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I was disentangling myself piece by piece, severing my obligations. I wanted less and less to be asked of me. You sometimes hear stories of people who fall into icy lakes and survive drowning because their metabolisms slow to the barest possible level of functioning. That’s what I did with my life, a kind of icing down to the survivable minimum. -Caroline Kettlewell

Now this manner of regarding my life from a distance as though I were a character in a performance had begun to pervade my every transition with the world. -Caroline Kettlewell

I learned, just a few years ago, that among self-mutilators, as many as sixty percent report a parallel history of eating disorders: a statistic that didn't surprise me. From the outsides, their shared theme might appear to be self-destruction, but from where I've stood, what they have in common is something all together different. I subdued hunger, overcame the animal self's blind instinct for self-preservation, in search of a perfect silence. -Caroline Kettlewell

What is it about insanity and ultimately death that so captures the imagination of young girls? -Caroline Kettlewell

Why does it feel that my mind is constantly trying to pull me down? I can't seem to get away. Continuous mistakes I know I've made before. How long will I feel so out of place? -Alicia Keys

One day I'll fly away, leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends. -Nicole Kidman

Most men think that the more you think about life and the more knowledge you have, the happier you become. But the ironical thing is that it only increases sorrow. -Soren Kierkegaard

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. -Soren Kierkegaard

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation. -Soren Kierkegaard

Yeah, I'm feelin' low but don't come run to my rescue. Please don't come to preach. Don't need no goddamn happy speech. Is it alright if I cry without no positive speeches? Don't need no lessons on God because I'm human, I got weakness. Don't just say it's alright my life fell into 10 pieces. Don't just say it's fine. Just let me have a cry. I know you're tryin' to help me. Can't you just listen to me sometimes? You can't always find the answers. Everybody's faith ain't always high. Yeah, I'm feelin' low so please just let me sulk. There ain't nothin' you can say so don't come sing Amazing Grace. There ain't nothin' you can do so don't come give your point of view. -Kina

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why stay with him? He uses you just like a human punching bag. -The Kinks

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it. -Rudyard Kipling

I look at that little girl now and see that it was a shame she wasn't prepared for any of this. She couldn't comprehend what was happening. She was thinking 'why are these people bothering me'? -Olga Korbut

I'm in a sea, somehow it always seems that I'm dreaming of something I can never be. It doesn't matter to me cuz I will be the pimp that I see in all of my fantasies...scheming is the only way that I can truly be free from my fucked up reality. -Korn

I see your faces and I do not understand why each time I dream you're standing there right by my side. Why do you make me? You take my pride and in my eyes, you kinda rape me..... inside. -Korn

Falling through this space in time, buried in this hurt of mine. Falling slowly like a dream. Falling through a world unseen. -Korn

I'll close both my eyes and I'll let go ‘cause everyone has a reason but no one really knows. There's more than one way to light this fire, more than one way to light this flame, more than one way to feed that tiger. So if it's all the same I'll find my own way. -Karen Kosowski

Time, where did you go? Why did you leave me here alone? Wait, don't go so fast. I'm missing the moments as they pass. -Chantal Kreviazuk

I don't know why I was so ashamed. Such a waste of time. And I don't know who I was trying to be. All those lies. I used to carry the weight of the world and now all I wanna do is spread my wings and fly. -Chantal Kreviazuk

Well it all comes down to the things that I never even wanted. I should live my life without holding on to you. And it's hard to believe that you couldn't recognize my tears. I glued them on for you. -Chantal Kreviazuk

Gravity ain't kind. You lost your Playboy body at Hollywood and Vine. You sure spent lots of money, now you wonder why your 15 minutes flew by. Well it must've been hard and it must've been good and it must've been nice to be understood. It must've been fun ‘cause you must have been loved. You must've been beautiful. -Chantal Kreviazuk

And I'm deep inside my soul but I can't find my way back home. I'm hiding from the moment that's never far behind. Hiding from the moment that makes everything all right. -Chantal Kreviazuk

When I go swimming in your intellect the water's so shallow and the dialect is so phony. -Chantal Kreviazuk

I'm gonna go hungry, gonna fight the good fight. I'm gonna learn to go without but I'll feel no hunger pain. -Chantal Kreviazuk

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn’t go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal. -Hanif Kureishi

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. -Harold S. Kushner

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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. -R.D. Laing

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. -Louis L'Amour

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. -John Lancaster

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind and toward the sky and let my life begin. -Avril Lavigne

Let the rain falling on your face run into your eyes. Can you see the rainbow now through the stormy skies? -Avril Lavigne

She wants to go home but nobody's home. That's where she lies broken inside. No place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes. Broken inside. Her feeling she hides. Her dream she can't find. She's losing her mind. She's fallen behind. She can't find her place. She's losing her faith. She's fallen from grace. She's all over the place. -Avril Lavigne

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. -Jerome Lawrence

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future. -Penelope Leach

Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend. -Bill Lee

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -Ursula LeGuin

We're afraid to be human because if we're human we might get hurt. -Madeleine L'Engle

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine. Can't do you no harm to feel your own pain. -John Lennon

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. -John Lennon

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -John Lennon

People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing. Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin. When I say that I'm o.k. well they look at me kind of strange. Surely you're not happy now you no longer play the game!? People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away. Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me. -John Lennon

Dying is easy. It's living that scares me to death. -Annie Lennox

These are the tears, the tears we shed. This is the fear. This is the dread. These are the contents of my head. -Annie Lennox

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. -Eda LeShan

I had a dream my life would be so much different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. -Les Miserables (the musical)

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is....A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. -C.S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. -Jack Lewis

If shame had a face I think it would kind of look like mine. If it had a home would it be in my eyes? Would you believe me if I said I am tired of this? Now here we go one more time. -Lifehouse

It's just one of those days when ya don't wanna wake up. Everything is fucked. Everybody sucks. -Limp Bizkit

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. -Abraham Lincoln

Do I sit here and try to stand it? Or do I try to catch them red-handed? Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness? Or do I trust nobody and live in loneliness? Because I can't hold on when I'm stretched so thin. I make the right moves but I'm lost within. I put on my daily facade but then I just end up getting hurt again...by myself. I ask why but in my mind I find I can't rely on myself. -Linkin Park

Crawling in my skin, these wounds they will not heal. Fear is how I fall, confusing what is real. There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface, consuming, confusing. This lack of self control I fear is never ending, controlling. I can't seem to find myself again. My walls are closing in. Without a sense of confidence and I'm convinced that there's just too much pressure to take. I've felt this way before, so insecure. -Linkin Park

If I turn my back, I'm defenseless and to go blindly seems senseless. If I hide my pride and let it all go on then they'll take from me until everything's gone. If I let them go, I'll be outdone but if I try to catch them I'll be outrun. If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer. -Linkin Park

Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me. Told you everything loud and clear but nobody's listening. Called to you so clearly but you didn't want to hear me. Told you everything loud and clear but nobody's listening. I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress, hand full of anger held in my chest. Uphill struggle, blood, sweat, and tears. Nothing to gain, everything to fear. -Linkin Park

Memories consume me, like opening the wound. I'm picking me apart again. You all assume I'm safe here in my room (unless I try to start again). I don't want to be the one the battles always choose. 'Cause inside I realize that I'm the one confused. I don't know what's worth fighting for or why I have to scream. -Linkin Park

It's easier to run, replacing this pain with something numb. It's so much easier to go than face all this pain here all alone. Something has been taken from deep inside me. The secret I've kept locked away, no one can ever see. Wounds so deep they never show, they never go away. Like moving pictures in my head, for years and years they've played. -Linkin Park

When this began I had nothing to say and I got lost in the nothingness inside of me. I was confused. And I let it all out to find that I'm not the only person with these things in mind inside of me. But all the vacancy the words revealed is the only real thing that I've got left to feel. Nothing to lose. Just stuck, hollow and alone and the fault is my own. The fault is my own. -Linkin Park

Time won't take this damage anymore. Don't turn your back on me. I won't be ignored. I am a little bit insecure, a little unconfident. 'Cause you don't understand I do what I can but sometimes I don't make sense. –Linkin Park

It’s no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy 'cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me. The smoke alarm is going off and there’s a cigarette still burning. Please tell me why my car is in the front yard and I’m sleeping with my clothes on. I came in through the window last night and you’re gone. -Lit

Stuck to a chair, watchin’ this story about me. Everything goes by so fast, making my head spin. Used up all of my friends but who needs them? -Lit

Heard a lot of talk about my spirit, heard a lot of talk about my soul. But I decided that anxiety and pain were better friends so I let it go. -Live

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger. But my daughter, when I told her of our topic and my difficulty with it, said, 'Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out, one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside'. -Audre Lorde

When I care to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. -Audre Lorde

My silences have not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. -Audre Lorde

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think that self-destructiveness can also mean self-reflection, can mean poetic sensibility, it can mean empathy, it can mean a hedonism and a libertarianism and a lack of judgment. -Courtney Love

Drugs are dumb and self-indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb. -Courtney Love

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key. -Charles Fletcher Lummis

‘Cause I've learned enough from pain and now I wanna throw off my covers 'cause I wailed in thought that I also matter. So when I slide, I'll make me stop. And I'll choose courage instead of disaster. Somehow, the wounds find their way to heal. We see the worth in what we are made of and that we are honest and real. -Lygia

And in the silence of the shattered, unscreamed: She's just the sensitive one.... in the woods with her guitar and dreams. She's just the sensitive one, it's not any thing parents don't see. She's just the sensitive one, no alarms or anything. She's just the sensitive one, a little sad let's let her be .. and...Ooh child, it's only pain. Ooh, it's only loneliness and sorrow and shame. -Lygia

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To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. -Catharine MacKinnon

And if you ask me, I'll keep saying that I'm fine. So just don't ask. And if you see me I'll keep flashing that winning smile 'cause that's my mask. -Tara MacLean

Can you hear the child tears whose paradise was taken from his hands? Can you hold him in your arms and tell him that you'll try to understand when there's no way in hell you can. -Tara MacLean

'Cause I'm long past feeling and I'm too far gone. Staring at my ceiling, I know silence better than anyone. -Tara MacLean

Wrapped inside a twisted world. I can't decide what is even real anymore, as though I ever knew. Tangled in these silhouettes, floating face down in a river of regrets and thoughts of you. -Tara MacLean

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be. -Norman Mailer

There's one thing to be said for inviting trouble: it generally accepts. -May Maloo

I eat too much to die and not enough to stay alive. I'm sitting in the middle waiting. -Manic Street Preachers

Build up walls so you can't feel. When you get high 'It's so unreal'. Days fade in and I need the night. I've seen your dumb face all of my life -Manic Street Preachers

It's not what you thought when you first began it. You got what you want, now you can hardly stand it. Though by now you know it's not going to stop. It's not going to stop. It's not going to stop 'til you wise up. You're sure there's a cure and you have finally found it. You think one drink will shrink you 'til you're underground and living down. But it's not going to stop. It's not going to stop. It's not going to stop 'til you wise up. -Aimee Mann

This is for the time that I lost. The death of who I thought I was. The things in which I cannot believe for fear I'll wear them on my sleeve. Things I know that will never be returned, but I crossed that bridge before it burned. -Aimee Mann

You couldn't pin this one on me. You knew my thoughts so far as I could see. Well, I'd say it's hopeless but you make the call. 'Cause I never was wrong to fight it and if given the chance, I guess I'll learn to build that wall. -Aimee Mann

You better pray that the lies you have going can keep you from owing much more than you do. 'Cause the debt just gets bigger and one day I figure someone will be calling it due. And I will admit I'd like to commit To tearing down the wall I see. But why raise a hand when I know the end is coming soon enough without me? -Aimee Mann

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. -Horace Mann

As I nod my head in polite and pathetic appreciation for their input, I scream inside; 'Shut up. Shut up. Unless you've been lost in this particular section of hell yourself, don't you dare try to give me directions.' -Martha Manning

I look at other people and I think, 'He lives without meds. She does. What is wrong with me? Am I so biochemically screwed up, so neurotic, so narcissistically self-absorbed that every hour is an obstacle course for me?' -Martha Manning

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is only good for wallowing in.- Katherine Mansfield

There's a pitiful flaw in my personality that subconsciously makes me want to do the exact opposite of what's expected from me. -Shirley Manson

You'll understand what I mean when I say there's no way we're gonna give up. And like a little girl cries in the face of a monster that lives in her dreams, is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe? Is there anyone out there cause it's getting harder and harder to breathe? Does it kill? Does it burn? Is it painful to learn that it's me that has all the control? -Maroon 5

I have told all of my enemies, very politely, to go home. I have seen all of your remedies, now wont you let me please go home? I’ve been acting irresponsibly. Oh what could possibly go wrong? I have choked on all your remedies, now won’t you let me please go home? -Maroon 5

What makes you think I'll let you in again? Think again my friend. Go on, misuse me and abuse me, I'll come out stronger in the end. Does it make you sad to find yourself alone? Does it make you mad to find that I have grown? Bet it hurts so bad to see the strength that I have shown. -Maroon 5

Immobilized by the thought of you. Paralyzed by the sight of you. Hypnotized by the words you say, not true but I believe ‘em anyway. -Maroon 5

Fed up with my destiny and this place of no return. Think I'll take another day and slowly watch it burn. It doesn't really matter how the time goes by 'cause I still remember you and I. -Amanda Marshall

Standing on the edge of time, playing out a reckless pantomime, and every day's another wrong to rectify. I dream about a stranger's touch and voices in my head I cannot hush. And every night's a hunger I can't satisfy. It's the secret that I keep, it's the ache that makes me weep, and I know I'm in too deep. I'm gonna drown. -Amanda Marshall

Seems the dreams she had have all turned black and blue. She's wasted years, no time for tears. -Amanda Marshall

I wonder if there's a chance that maybe you know what this is like. It's like a bloodstain and it's spreading across my chest. And I've been bleeding for so long, I think this heart of mine deserves a rest. -Amanda Marshall

It isn't easy to be kind with all these demons in my mind. I only hope one day I'll be free. I do my best not to complain. My face is dirty from the strain. I only hope one day I'll come clean. -Amanda Marshall

Remember the nights she needed a near by rescue crew, dreaming herself infrared and not knowing what to do. Circling and circling and spinning around, finding ways to peel herself off of the ground. Now the empty chatter in her head never shakes the sound. -Charlotte Martin

I'm so uncertain of what's growing in my head. That's how it goes when there are ghosts to put to bed. What does it want from me, certificates of certainty? There must be help around the bend. -Charlotte Martin

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. -Karl Marx

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. -Abraham Maslow

All day, staring at the ceiling, makin' friends with shadows on my wall. All night, hearing voices telling me that I should get some sleep because tomorrow might be good for something. Hold on, feeling like I'm headed for a breakdown and I don't know why. Well I'm not crazy. I'm just a little unwell. I know right now you can't tell -Matchbox 20

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself. Sometimes I find it's easier to be someone else. -Dave Matthews

There’s an emptiness inside her and she’d do anything to fill it in. And though it’s red blood bleeding from her now, it felt like cold blue ice in her heart. She feels like kicking out all the windows and setting fire to this life. She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright but all the colors mix together - to grey. And it breaks her heart. -Dave Matthews

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -William Somerset Maugham

I never lived the dream of the prom kings and the drama queens. I'd like to think the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve. They love to tell you stay inside the lines. But something's better on the other side. -John Mayer

I'm not alone. I wish I was ‘cause then I'd know I was down because I couldn't find a friend around to love me like they do right now. They do right now. I'm dizzy from the shopping mall. I searched for joy but I bought it all. It doesn't help the hunger pains and a thirst I'd have to drown first to ever satiate. -John Mayer

Ever since I’ve tried trying not to find every little meaning in my life it’s been fine. I’ve been cool with my new golden rule. Numb is the new deep. Done with the old me. And talk is the same cheap it's been. -John Mayer

It's hard to hide the pain behind the mask. Bearing the burden of a secret storm, sometimes she wishes she was never born. -Martina McBride

Another lovely misadventure in the dark. All my friends who knew me when tell me not to wander down that road again. What they don't know, what they can't see, it's being on that road that makes me free. -Martina McBride

We are the hero of our own story. -Mary McCarthy

Someday I'm gonna love me. -Tim McGraw

Tied down to this bed of shame, you tried to move around the pain but oh, your soul is anchored. -Sarah McLachlan

Hold on. Hold on to yourself, for this is gonna hurt like hell. -Sarah McLachlan

I fear I have nothing to give. I have so much to lose here in this lonely place. -Sarah McLachlan

Now the damage is done. The certainty's gone. The spirit's altered. -Sarah McLachlan

Somewhere deep inside me I hold a picture of a long time ago - a time of ease and simple pleasures and days in shadows not so long. -Sarah McLachlan

Depression is really a tangible emotion that you can sink your teeth into. There are lots of words to describe it and lots of meaty stuff to whine about. –Sarah McLachlan

I've seen a part of people that I never really want to share. I've seen a part of people that I never knew was there. -Sarah McLachlan

I'm so tired but I can't sleep. Standin' on the edge of something much too deep. It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word. We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard. -Sarah McLachlan

I’ll leave you with your misery, a friend who won't betray. I’ll pull you from your tower. I’ll take away your pain and show you all the beauty you possess. If you'd only let yourself believe that we are born innocent. -Sarah McLachlan

So tired of the straight line and everywhere you turn there's vultures and thieves at your back. And the storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lie that you make up for all that you lack. -Sarah McLachlan

And look at the child with the dream in her eyes, holding it deep inside her. -Sarah McLachlan

It's a very strange world that leaves me holding on to nothing when there's nothing left to lose. -Sarah McLachlan

I'm all alone. All the feelings they remain like a still life. A dying swan song forever lost your cries of glory. Walking from the shadows, a fear of sadness grows. -Sarah McLachlan

All those feelings, pain and anger, flood back one by one. They must be just around the bend. They always come at night as I lay sleeping. They come to me in herds. Their lies remain, the dreams the same, it's only fleeting words. Close call there in the shadows. There's no end to the dark. ‘cause there's no one out there, no one but me. The hours pass so slowly, the life's slipping out of me. No way's the right way. Is there a way out for me? -Sarah McLachlan

So much anger so deeply ingrained, seemed a burden that was hers alone. She didn't think that there was anything wrong with wanting a life that she could call her own. -Sarah McLachlan

I will stare into the sun until its light doesn't blind me. I will walk into the fire until its heat doesn't burn me. And I will feed the fire. And into the fire I'm reunited. Into the fire, I am the spark. Into the fire, I yearn for comfort. -Sarah McLachlan

I've had more than myself to blame. I've had enough of trying everything and this time it is the end. -Sarah McLachlan

Your soul - it aches relentless from the fear that they will never guess. So unfair that they can make you feel so small. And the fear you know is real. -Sarah McLachlan

I used to think my life was often empty - a lonely space to fill. You hurt me more than I ever would have imagined. You made my world stand still. -Sarah McLachlan

It's not the wind that cracked your shoulder and threw you to the floor. Who's there that makes you so afraid you're shaken to the bone? -Sarah McLachlan

As the walls are closing in and the colors fade to black. And my eyes are falling fast and deep into me. And I follow the tracks that lead me down. And I never follow what's right. And they wonder sometimes when they see all the sadness and pain the truth brings to light. -Sarah McLachlan

Into this night I wander. It's morning that I dread. Another day of knowing of the path I fear to tread. -Sarah McLachlan

I love the time and in between the calm inside me. In the space where I can breathe, I believe there is a distance I have wandered to touch upon the years of reaching out and reaching in. Holding out, holding in -Sarah McLachlan

Sunday is gloomy. With shadows I spend it all. My heart and I have decided to end it all. Soon there'll be flowers and prayers that are sad, I know. Let them not weep. Let them know I'm glad to go. -Sarah McLachlan

I want it all to go away. I want to be alone. Sympathy's wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for, no reason for a cause. -Sarah McLachlan

I feel just like I'm sinking and I claw for solid ground. I'm pulled down by the undertow. I never thought I could feel so low. Oh darkness, I feel like letting go. -Sarah McLachlan

We believe that we could change ourselves - the past can be undone. But we carry on our back the burden time always reveals. In the lonely light of morning, in the wound that would not heal is the bitter taste of losing everything that I held so dear. I’ve fallen. I have sunk so low. I’ve messed up, better I should know. So don’t come ‘round here and tell me I told you so. -Sarah McLachlan

Hearts are worn in these dark ages. You're not alone in this story's pages. Night has fallen amongst the living and the dying and I try to hold it in, yeah I try to hold it in. The world's on fire and it's more than I can handle. -Sarah McLachlan

Night lift up the shades let in the brilliant light of morning but steady there now for I am weak and starving for mercy. Sleep has left me alone to carry the weight of unraveling where we went wrong. It's all I can do to hang on, to keep me from falling into old familiar shoes. -Sarah McLachlan

You have been drifting for so long. I know you don’t want to come down. Somewhere below you there’s people who love you and they’re ready for you to come home. -Sarah McLachlan

Tear up the darkness all around me until I can breathe again, until I believe again. 'Cause I'm a train wreck waiting to happen, waiting for someone to come pick me up off the tracks. A wild fire born of frustration, born of a world, oh, that gets me so high. I've no fear at all. -Sarah McLachlan

Cast me gently into morning, for the night has been unkind. -Sarah McLachlan

You have me, to hold me. A token for all to see, captured to be yours alone. And I need just a little more silence, and I just need a little more time, the courage to pull away. There will be hell to pay; the deeper you cut to the bone. Leave me be, I don't want to argue. I'd just get confused and I'd come all undone. If I agree, well, it's just to appease you 'cause I don't remember what we're fighting for. Time here, all but means nothing, just shadows that move across the wall. They keep me company, but they don't ask of me. They don't say nothing at all. -Sarah McLachlan

I've relied on my illusions to keep me warm at night. But I denied in my capacity to love. I am willing, to give up this fight. -Sarah McLachlan

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play. -Mignon McLaughlin

How can I get you to believe me, to believe the unbelievable? I want so much for you to understand. But you can't make someone believe you. Trust is a secret combination to a lock. Two turns of faith, one turn of fantasy, half a turn of truth. Trust me. It sounds so false. -Jane Mendelsohn

It's strange, but I need to see things as a movie in order to know the truth. Most of the time, I believe in what's going on. But when the frame freezes, I see that everyone has been acting. Most of the time, I'm so guillable. But when I have these moments, when the frame freezes, I see that I'm surrounded by fucking movie stars. -Jane Mendelsohn

Another day has almost come and gone. Can't imagine what else could go wrong. Sometimes I'd like to hide away somewhere and lock the door. A single battle lost, but not the war. -JoDee Messina

I have lost the will to live, simply nothing more to give. There is nothing more for me. Need the end to set me free. -Metallica

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dyin' that never learns to live. -Bette Midler

The truth about childhood is stored up in our body and lives in the depth of our soul. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings can be numbed and manipulated, our perception shamed and confused, our bodies tricked with medication. But our soul never forgets. -Alice Miller

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on? -Kate Millett

Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew. -Dan Millman

When we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backward - we may actually be backing up to get a running start. -Dan Millman

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. -Dan Millman

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. -Dan Millman

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on the strange new flesh you've found. -Joni Mitchell

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. -Margaret Mitchell

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. -Wilson Mizner

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. -Michel de Montaigne

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. -Michel de Montaigne

When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. -Alan Moore

I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands. -Dudley Moore

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. -Mary Tyler Moore

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged by it. -Alanis Morissette

I want to decide between survival and bliss and though I know who I'm not, I still don't know who I am. But I know I won't keep playing the victim. These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was a kid and parting with them is like parting with a childhood best friend. I've spent so long firmly looking outside me. I've spent so much time living in survival mode. -Alanis Morissette

How long can a girl be tortured by you? How long before my dignity is reclaimed? And how long can a girl be haunted by you? Soon I'll grow up and I won't even flinch at your name. -Alanis Morissette

For ignoring you, my highest voice. For smiling when my strife was all too obvious. For being so dissociated from my body. For not letting go when it would've been the kindest thing. To whom do I owe the biggest apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me. -Alanis Morissette

I have as much rage as you have. I have as much pain as you do. I've lived as much hell as you have and I've kept mine bubbling under for you. -Alanis Morissette

What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget? -Alanis Morissette

The joke that you laid in that bed was me. -Alanis Morissette

I've been doing research for years. I've been practicing my ass off. I've been training my whole life for this moment I swear to you. Culminating just to be this well-versed leader before you. I'll teach you all this in eight easy steps. A course of a lifetime you'll never forget. I'll show you how to in eight easy steps. I'll show you how leadership looks when taught by the best. How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else. How to keep smiling when you're thinking of killing yourself. How to numb a la holic to avoid going within. How to stay stuck in blue by blaming them for everything. -Alanis Morissette

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. -Faye Moskowitz

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hold onto the past is holding you back from a new life. -Mary Manin Morrissey

We're locked in an image, an act. And the sad thing is, people get so used to their image; they grow attached to their masks; they love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it. They feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession. -Jim Morrison

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Teresa

There's no need to hurry when I'm makin' up my mind. You can turn of the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why. 'Cause the remedy is the experience, this is a dangerous liaison. I says the comedy is that it’s serious. This is a strange enough new play on words. I say the tragedy is how you're gonna spend the rest of your nights with the light on. So shine the light on all of your friends. When it all amounts to nothin' in the end. –Jason Mraz

I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. -Malcolm Muggeridge

Please forgive me for not being pretty or sexy, but God never blessed me. Here's what you'll find next time you undress me: scars, wounds. I'm bruised. -My Ruin

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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -Friedrich Nietzsche

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. -Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night. -Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Enduring habits I hate... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. -Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. -Anais Nin

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself. -Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. -Anais Nin

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. -Anais Nin

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real. -Nine Inch Nails

I am the high you can't sustain and I control you. I am the pusher, I'm a whore and I control you. I am the need you have for more and I control you. I am the bullet in the gun and I control you. I am the truth from which you run and I control you. I am the silencing machine and I control you. I am the end of all your dreams and I control you. I take you where you want to go. I give you all you need to know. I drag you down I use you up. Mr. Self-destruct. -Nine Inch Nails

Maybe there will come a day when those that you keep blind will suddenly realize. Maybe it's a part of me you took to a place I hoped it would never go and maybe that fucked me up so much more than you'll ever know. How did you get so big? How did you get so strong? How did you get so hard? How did you get so long? What you gave to me, my perfect ring of scars. You know I can see what you really are. -Nine Inch Nails

Can you tell I'm faking it? But I want to be myself. A counterfeit disposition can't be good for my health. So many different faces, depending on the different phases. my personality changes. I'm a chameleon. -No Doubt

Almost every afternoon we'd play forbidden games. At nine years old, there is no such thing as shame. -NOFX

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot? -Kathleen Norris

I gave it away - whore for a day. It's so ugly. I'm still breathing but you never got my virgin heart. It stayed locked up. It's still beating. -Heather Nova

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It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim. -Joyce Carol Oates

I would never take any drugs again would never give myself unquestioning to a man again, I saw things, people and objects both with a strange clarity. Like light radiated outward from them. Their weight, substance. If I touched, texture. I saw that these objects inhabited space and wasn’t proof too that I inhabited space, I existed, I exist, I am. -Joyce Carol Oates

Is the need to save people good or bad, compulsion or compassion? Where’s the line and how do you know when you’ve crossed over it? Are artists driven by creativity or insanity? It’s complicated. On a good day I think I’m a relatively sane person with a few frayed wires. On a bad day I think ‘Just lock me up’. Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity? I ask myself these sorts of things on a daily basis. I wish I didn’t. I need a pause button for my brain. -Rosie O’Donnell

No one would understand; no one ever does. I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden. Who would I tell? -Rosie O’Donnell

‘I should have’ is going to kill me one day. -Rosie O’Donnell

When your boundaries have been violated, you just plain and simple stop seeing the space between people, so people’s pain becomes your pain and you have to stop it. At the same time, though, codependency is also a distancing ploy; you’re so busy trying to save the world out there you forget about the people close to you, and then, last of all, or first of all, you forget about yourself, that you might be the one worth saving. -Rosie O’Donnell

Since I have been depressed for so long, I know how to dance around it. My job is to be happy and funny; when I’m not I just go on autopilot. Usually that works well enough. But it gets so tiring, having to pretend, the mask tied tightly to my real face. Then again, what is my real face? Would I even recognize it in the mirror? -Rosie O’Donnell

The life I have been living feels like a movie, and I have been miscast. -Rosie O’Donnell

Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken pieces together. -Rosie O’Donnell

My wounds became words; they screamed out what could not be spoken. The pain on the outside reflected the pain on the inside. I felt one with myself, finally. -Rosie O’Donnell

I remember reading once in some magazine article that doctors took pictures of trauma survivors’ brains and compared them to normal brains, and the traumatized brains were different. The point of that story is that trauma gets stamped into the brain’s gray mush – the doctors in the article called it a trauma tattoo – and that seems like a good description for the way bad things get chiseled right into your head so no matter how hard you shake your head, they won’t go away. -Rosie O’Donnell

At times of great emotion, good or bad, I find I am gone, somewhere else, watching it happen to me, a different me. I miss a lot of my own life, my own moments, because I step outside myself. I feel it all more in retrospect than in actual time. -Rosie O’Donnell

Yes, she had burns; yes, there was evidence of great distress, but seeing it up close, even the burns became oddly not odd, just something she did to get by, just one more quirk of human nature. -Rosie O’Donnell

This is a life? What a fucked up thing we do. What a nightmare come true. -The Offspring

There's more to living than only surviving. Maybe I'm not there but I'm still trying. -The Offspring

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away. -Kenich Ohmae

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. -Lane Olinghouse

Keep looking for the reason, high and low, to let it go. Keep losin' my mind, looking for the peace I'll never find. -Beth Orton

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. -George Orwell

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living. -George Orwell

Inheriting troubles I'm mentally numb. Crazy, I just cannot bear. I'm living with something that just isn't fair. Mental wounds not healing. Who and what's to blame? -Ozzy Osbourne

It's catching you but you don't see. The reaper is you and the reaper is me. Breaking laws, knocking doors, but there's no one at home. Made your bed, rest your head, but you lie there and moan. Where to hide? Suicide is the only way out. Don't you know what it's really about? -Ozzy Osbourne

People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time. All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy. Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify. -Ozzy Osbourne

So heed my warning, the time is dawning. I'll tell you, here's the twist: the truth is lying, below the surface. I don't exist. -Ozzy Osbourne

I know it’s stuck inside your head. You’re alone. You better get used to it. And I know the feeling has to end. You’re strong. It sucks you in again. And you’re lost. You can’t make any sense. This world, it tears you limb from limb. -Our Lady Peace

An ordinary girl, an ordinary waist but ordinary's just not good enough today.-Our Lady Peace

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. -Cynthia Ozick

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Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. -Camille Paglia

Every addiction is just a way to treat this same problem. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it is all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple. Language is just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. People can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. -Chuck Palahniuk

If there really is a God, then it's punishing me constantly. -Pantera

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acid stains you; And drugs cause cramps. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. -Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. -Dorothy Parker

They sicken of the calm who know the storm. -Dorothy Parker

I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. -Dorothy Parker

My heart's breaking up inside me. How could anyone feel so alone? Tears flow, pouring from my sorrow. No one here but me knows that I'm alive. -Sandi Patty

Shooting arrows in the darkness. Holding fire in your hands. Oh and yesterday's forsaken 'cause the innocence was taken away. And so the ashes blow around me. My fears rise up to fan the flame. But in the midst of all my sorrow I hear a distant sweet tomorrow call my name. When I heal, when I learn, when I face all that I've been running from. When I see, when I know, that my time has come. -Sandi Patty

My footsteps are all but sure. The sun does little to guide my eyes. I think I shall walk no more. My faith won't mean a thing when I'm walking along, on and on and I'm still not free. I don't know if I can make it to the end. My will is strong but my spirit is gone. The path is long, and it's hard on my feet. I throw down my torn up shoes with my mind weary and my hope worn thin. I'm safe now, I have no more to lose. -Mieka Pauley

I will not wait for what the world may not create. I'll take fate day by day. I focused on the embers that just fade with time, hoping for a spark from a fire that won't revive, believing in a fate that left me only one. In lamenting loss of fire, I overlooked the sun. -Mieka Pauley

Like a scared little child, I closed my eyes to defend or maybe to slip away. I was scared, I was tired, I was losing control and shouted, ‘Yes, in this world, I am alone’. -Mieka Pauley

I've been everybody else now I wanna be something closer to myself. Paint me in a different light, shed me yet another coat of skin, mark me with ash until I'm clean again ‘cause I'm so sick and tired of being sick and tired. -Kendall Payne

Was it worth the tears you cried to fit the size? Think it over once or twice, what lasts the longest in this life, character, or rock hard thighs? And in the end do you believe, that beauty lies in what you see? ‘Cause if you do, then baby you’ve been deceived. -Kendall Payne

I’m tired of hearing myself speak. Do you get weary? Do you ever get weak? How do you dream when you can't fall asleep? -Kendall Payne

Child don’t close your eyes. The truth contains much beauty and though it scars your soul, it can heal the wounds it makes. You've been deceived to think that pain is to be dreaded, and you've got nothing left. It'll give more than it takes. -Kendall Payne

He who forgets will be destined to remember. -Pearl Jam

Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say. -Wilferd A. Peterson

You don't know how it feels to be me. -Tom Petty

Just waiting for the time when I can finally say 'this has been wonderful, and now I'm on my way'. -Phish

I drank your poison 'cause you told me it was wine. Shame on you if you fool me once. Shame on me if you fool me twice. I didn't know the price. -Pink

I laid there quiet, watched you have your way with me. I might have cried. The tears were silent inside, you see. You called me names, made me feel like I was dumb. -Pink

Constantly pushing the world I know aside. I don't even feel the pain. I don't even want to try. -Pink

Everyday I fight a war against the mirror. I can't take the person staring back at me. I'm a hazard to myself. -Pink

Take what you can get, don't even bother with my heart 'cause I got a feeling I won't let it start. -Pink

Staring at the cracks in the wall 'cause I'm waiting for it all to come to an end. Still I curl up right under the bed 'cause it's taking over my head all over again. -Pink

I've been the girl- middle finger in the air. Unaffected by rumors, the truth: I don't care. So open your mouth and stick out your tongue, you might as well let go. You can't take back what you've done. So find a new lifestyle, a new reason to smile. Look for Nirvana under the strobe lights. -Pink

She's back on drugs again even though she knows it ain't right. She can't even call up her friends and say, "help me save my life". She's so ashamed of herself that she's come full circle. Nobody understands what it's like to be this girl. -Pink

She looks to the sun. Help her to carry on. Breakin’ down all the years. Wondering how she got here. She drifts through the sky counting the reasons why, how my life turned so fast. Remembering all of the past - all the changes, and all the mistakes. Foolishly laughing at things that… words that she says. She looks to the stars breaking… time to follow the heart. Her world is falling apart. And the turning of every new page, a book on a shelf that is there to remain. Breaking the walls as she's tearing them down, as she is starting to drown. -Pink

The flames are all long gone, but the pain lingers on. -Pink Floyd

The lunatic is in my head. You raise the blade, you make the change, you re-arrange me 'til I'm sane. You lock the door and throw away the key. There's someone in my head but it's not me. -Pink Floyd

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death. -Pink Floyd

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now. The child is grown, the dream is gone. I have become comfortably numb. -Pink Floyd

The use of force, he was so tough. She'll soon submit, she's had enough. -Pink Floyd

Hey you...did you ever realize what you'd become? And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from? Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway? -Pink Floyd

If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes you'll just have to claw your way through this disguise. -Pink Floyd

And they (daughters) are angry when their mothers warn them of dangers that they understand even better than their mothers. -Mary Piper

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. -Robert M. Pirsig

I can't kill my feelings so I gotta kill me. That's the only way that I can be free. -Plasmatics

When you are insane, you are busy being insane—all the time…when I was crazy, that was all I was. -Sylvia Plath

My world falls apart, crumbles, 'The center cannot hold.' There is no integrating force, only the naked fear, the urge of self-preservation. I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. I never thought. I never wrote, I never suffered. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb. I do not know who I am, where I am going — and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions. I long for a noble escape from freedom — I am weak, tired, in revolt from the strong constructive humanitarian faith which presupposes a healthy, active intellect and will. There is nowhere to go… -Sylvia Plath

Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. the only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending. -Sylvia Plath

Whom can I talk to? Get advice from? No one. A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money. And I won’t take advice, even if I want it. I’ll kill myself. I am beyond help. No one here has time to probe, to aid me in understanding myself...so many others are worse off than I. How can I selfishly demand help, solace, guidance? -Sylvia Plath

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. -Sylvia Plath

I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern. –Sylvia Plath

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps inside me. –Sylvia Plath

Is there no way out of the mind? -Sylvia Plath

Her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment. -Sylvia Plath

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call. -Sylvia Plath

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. -Sylvia Plath

I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. -Sylvia Plath

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. -Sylvia Plath

I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. -Sylvia Plath

If only something were wrong with my body it would be fine. I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head. -Sylvia Plath

Oh yes I'm the great pretender, pretending I'm doing well. My need is such, I pretend too much. I'm lonely but no one can tell. -The Platters

Healing comes so painfully and it chills to the bone. Will anyone get close to me? I'm damaged, as I'm sure you know. -Plumb

It isn't every day someone sets you free and gives you walking papers to be the real thing. I'm free. -Plumb

Cold is the throne of her hardened heart. No one has seen the softest part. Day after night she holds an ache and won't budge to show this secret place. Well, is it so wrong to hang on to hurt? -Plumb

My soul burns now with fire deep inside. I want to become brave and courageous, not buried in self-pity of my own. Ashamed and alone from all that's been done to me. It's not my fault I remind myself. -Plumb

Drowning out the sound of her sorrow she's finding it hard to exist. She keeps running into herself hoping to find somebody else. -Plumb

The crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last. -Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. -Edgar Allan Poe

I dreamt tomorrow had a prettier face. I dreamt tomorrow would have better things to say then, 'You look like shit. What's your problem bitch? Your legs feel like sandpaper you can't do anything right'. ‘Cause that day never should have taken place. This day in my life, still cannot explain why I listened in the first place to you. -Poe

Hey did you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke? You think you've got it figured out and then you find that you don't. So you say goodbye to the world and now you're floating in space. You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place. Then suddenly you hear it, it's the beat of your heart. And for the first time in your life you know your life is about to start. I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum. -Poe

He wants me right down on my knees, crumbling in disgrace but he underestimates my mind. I know he's messing with my head. My only weakness is I can't believe the guy could be entirely dead. You can't talk to a psycho like a normal human being. -Poe

I must stay calm, you know, and I must be clear. It's gonna take a hundred thoughts to make this one disappear. A train like that can travel a soul for years. A terrible thought can have a terribly long career. What minds have you shredded? I bet they regretted having ever thought you up. Just look at you shine, committing your crimes. You know I don't want you in my mind ‘cause you're breaking my stride. You poisonous vine, you're strangling me inside. -Poe

This is such a sweet collaboration. You've got the power, I got the shame. Funny thing is we both want somebody to blame. -Poe

Come here. No I won't say please. One more look at the ghost before I'm gonna make it leave. Come here. I've got the pieces here. Time to gather up the splinters, build a casket for my tears. -Poe

Don't you mess with a little girl's dream ‘cause she's liable to grow up mean. Surprise you to find that I'm laughing? You thought that you'd find me in tears. You thought I'd be crawling the walls like a tiny mosquito and trembling in fear? Well, you may be king for the moment but I am a queen, understand? And I've got your pawns and your bishops and castles all inside the palm of my hand. While you were looking the other way, while you had your eyes closed, while you were licking your lips 'cause I was miserable, while you were selling your soul, while you were tearing a hole in me, I was taking control. -Poe

When I close my eyes I am at the center of the sun and I cannot be hurt by anything this wicked world has done. -Poe

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. -Alexander Pope

It's easy to go to extremes, hard to stand firm in the middle. -Ezra Pound

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream. -Stefanie Powers

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. -George Dennison Prentice

No child is bad from the beginning. They just imitate their atmosphere. -Prince

Don't abuse children, or else they turn out like me. Fair to partly crazy, deep down we're all the same. Every single one of us knows some kind of pain. -Prince

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. -Marcel Proust

Everything's so blurry and everyone's so fake and everybody's empty and everything is so messed up. -Puddle of Mudd

Someone's always tellin’ me I'm no good. Well I don't care what you say. Someone's always giving me a hard time. Well I live day to day. Someone's always puttin’ me in my place like I don't know where I am. So I'll just sit here in the corner, without any direction. Maybe it's all in my head. I think that it's something, something you said. I understand that some things will never change, never change. -Puddle of Mudd

Emotionless I slip in to the black and there's no turning back now, everyone around me smoking crack. This tunnel is blinding, hallucinating I'm debating life, but it's still moving forward. If I could change the hands of time, well, I'd do it better. -Puddle of Mudd

What I feel it is real. What I do it's the truth. When I drink I can't think. When I use I need more. -Puddle of Mudd

Help me. Save me from the fire. I'm melting. Don't you leave me hanging. I'm burning. Can't hold on forever. Another stupid genius crackin' underneath this pressure. Sorry, couldn't keep it together. -Puddle of Mudd

One more step and I’m falling off the mountain. One more pill - who cares? Nobody’s counting. -Puddle of Mudd

I'm Mr. Sandman in your bedroom, recommend the pills right for your doom. These taste so sweet like candies from the store. Give them a try. You need more to die. -Pungent Stench

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Sometimes wish I'd never been born at all. -Queen

Most of this is memory now. I've gone too far to turn back now. I'm not quite what I thought I was but then again, I'm maybe more -Queensryche

If you open your mind for me you won't rely on open eyes to see. The walls you built within come tumbling down, and a new world will begin. Living twice at once you learn, you're safe from the pain in the dream domain. A soul set free to fly. A round trip journey in your head. Master of illusion, can you realize? Your dream's alive. You can be the guide. -Queensryche

They say I'm to reach inside and find the broken part of my machinery. Psychoanalyze the chapters on the path to my darkest day. Searching for the answers, all I see is damage through the haze. Picking up the pieces of my life with no direction for re-assembly. -Queensryche

When you face the mirror, consider this: why judge another when you've got your own shit to fix? There's no solution good enough for everyone and your interpretations don't work in every situation -Queensryche

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety. -Thomas de Quincy

I don't care how much it hurts - I want control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. -Radiohead

The victims of rape must carry their memories with them for the rest of their lives. They must not also carry the burden of silence and shame. -Nancy Venable Raine

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. -Ayn Rand

I do not live in the world of sobriety. -Oliver Reed

Everything's beautiful as long as I ain't there. I guess I wasn't meant to crack a smile. Who cares? I think I'll go to sleep for a while now. I'm barely livin' in my skin. Depression's my only friend. And I don't know where I am headed, tryin' to forget where I've been. And I'm so sick of lying, God please show me that silver lining ‘cause I've heard tale and I'm not well. My heads full of hell and this world's a jail. And it don't matter and I don't care. I let my pain into the air ‘cause everything good's over there and everything here's hard to bear. -Rehab

The only thing worth looking for is what you find inside. But that had not yet appeared. Lost, invisible, here. -R.E.M.

I suffer the dreams of a world gone mad. I like it like that and I know it. I know it well, ugly and sweet. That temper madness with an even extreme. -R.E.M.

Storefront window, I reflect. Just last week I was merely heck. Tip the scale. I was hell. Picked me up, then I fell. Who's this stranger? Crowbar spine... and I feel fine. Let it rain, rain, rain. Bring my happy back again. -R.E.M.

Listen. This is now. This is here. This is me. This is what I wanted you to see. That was then. That was that.That is gone. That is past. -R.E.M.

I will try not to burden you. I can hold these inside. I will hold my breath until all these shivers subside, just look in my eyes. I will try not to worry you. I have seen things that you will never see. Leave it to memory. I shudder to breathe. -R.E.M.

Yes you live a lie. Tell you why. You're always preaching not to be numb but that's how you thrive. You pretend to create and observe when you really detach from feeling alive. -Rent (the Broadway musical)

What’s the time? Well it's gotta be close to midnight. My body's talking to me. It says,'Time for danger'. It says 'I wanna commit a crime, wanna be the cause of a fight, wanna put on a tight skirt and flirt with a stranger'. I've had a knack from way back at breaking the rules once I learn the games. Get up - life's too quick. I know someplace sick where this chick'll dance it the flames. We don't need any money; I always get in for free. You can get in too if you get in with me. -Rent (the Broadway musical)

Under the rain of a thousand flames, we face the real pain. Falling in vain while the dark angel screams for vengeance in the dead shadow of falling stars. Silent cries of virgins touch the heart of night, raped by the demons under painful sights. Sperm and blood and terror - chaos in my head. Is the law of evil triumph for the damned? -Rhapsody

Darkness never really goes away, once you've seen it. -Anne Rice

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. -Elmer Rice

Rape is a part of war; but it may be more accurate to say that the capacity for dehumanizing another which so corrodes male sexuality is carried over from sex into war. -Adrienne Rich

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail. -Adrienne Rich

Lying is done with words and also with silence. -Adrienne Rich

Wish I knew then what I know now. You held all the cards and sold me out. Baby, shame on you if you fool me once. Shame on me if you fool me twice. But you've been a pretty hard case to crack. I should've known better but I didn't and I can't go back. Oh, life goes on, and its only gonna make me strong. It’s a fact, once you get on board say goodbye ‘cause you can't go b ack. Oh, its a fight, and I really wanna get it right. Where I'm at, it’s my life before me, got this feeling that I can't go back. -Leann Rimes

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief, and, most of all, fear. -Joan Rivers

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do ourselves. -Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. -Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We all have enough strength to bear other people's woes. -Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Turn out the light, and maybe tonight, while watching my dreams fall apart; I'll discover a clue, to make them come true. Or at least find the right way to start. -Francis Rogerson

Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years. And though you've tried you just can't hide, your eyes are edged with tears. -The Rolling Stones

I wonder why it always feels like rain. My life is like some cheap champagne. The answers don't always seem to fit. My glass is full, but it tastes like shit. -Katy Rose

I see this girl with so much anger, pacified by holding strangers. Making peace with all her danger by looking in the mirror. The pureness in my name is gone now. You've taken it too far but somehow I'll lick my wounds and take the last bow and hold my cold left hand. -Katy Rose

So hurting here is where I belong, dreaming a song, blood on my hands to stay strong. The flowers in the graveyard are all gone. I don't belong. There is no right to heal the wrong. Soup's on hot feelin' like a do or die. I can't throw up don't think I even want to try. You still can't make me cry. You've pinned this butterfly down. My fire's burning out, kill my flame without a frown. And starving hurts the soul. -Katy Rose

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. -Elizabeth Kubler Ross

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. -Roberto Rossellini

Their tones waxed loud. Their looks were evil. Lashing their tails, they trod and hustled her, elbowed and jostled her, clawed with their nails, barking, mewing, hissing, mocking. Tore her gown and soiled her stocking, twitched her hair out by the roots, stamped upon her tender feet, held her hands and squeezed their fruits against her mouth to make her eat. -Christina Rossetti

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. -Mary Doria Russell

Suspicious-looking stranger flashes you a dangerous grin. Shadows across your window... was it only trees in the wind? Every breath a static charge, a tongue that tastes like tin. Steely- eyed outside to hide the enemy within. To you, is it movement or is it action? Is it contact or just reaction? And you...revolution or just resistance? Is it living, or just existence? -Rush

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A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? -Jane Wagner

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. -J. Donald Walters

I'd rather be dreaming than living. Living's just too hard to do. It's chances, not choices, noises not voices. A day's just a thing to get through. Living's just too hard to do. -Louden Wainwright III

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. -Herbert Ward

Obvious and inexorable oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt, but to submission. -Simone Weil

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. -Mae West

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. -Edith Wharton

Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established. -Byron R. White

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. -Alfred North Whitehead

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. -Walt Whitman

No one knows what it's like to feel these feelings like I do and I blame you. -The Who

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. -Oscar Wilde

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in a wild revolt against herself. -Oscar Wilde

Well the whole truth is like the story of a wave unfurled. But I held the evil of the world so I stopped the tide, froze it up from inside. And it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then you catch your breath and winter starts again. And everyone else is spring bound and when I chose to live there was no joy - it's just a line I crossed. It wasn't worth the pain my death would cost. So I was not lost or found. -Dar Williams

I covered the path where my life turned to lies and the moon kept on rising but I felt nothing at all. She comes when the empire falls and shines on crumbling walls. -Dar Williams

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. -Tennessee Williams

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? -Marianne Williamson

Turn your wounds into wisdom. -Oprah Winfrey

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. -Virginia Woolf

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. -Virginia Woolf

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. -Virginia Woolf

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. -Virginia Woolf

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. -Virginia Woolf

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. -Virginia Woolf

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping. -Virginia Woolf

From the body of one guilty deed, a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. -William Wordsworth

I am cursed with this. Cursed with a personality that feels too much or too little, and never the right thing. So now I am taking drugs, never to feel again. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

This is how you become an addict. You have no inner resources, you drive people crazy with all your neediness, years go by, you don’t grow up, people lose patience, and all that’s left is whatever gets you through. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

...I didn’t deal with anything I could avoid. I didn’t deal with most things I couldn’t avoid, so most things never got done until it became an emergency. I am a 911 girl. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

But I’m on strike from life. Until conditions improve, I will sit in my emptiness, fill myself with drugs, and wait for word about negotiations, because I can’t negotiate for myself anymore. Fix it. That’s what I wish someone would do. Fix life, and I will live again. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

I understand that I have run out of reasons, that I have not moved on to excuses. That’s the difference between using and abusing: when you use drugs, they are indeed useful; they help you get through. By the time you are abusing, it’s just about the drugs; addiction is its own thing. I do drugs because I do drugs – just doing drugs makes you want to do more drugs – and that’s what makes it an addiction. It feeds on itself, it is a closed system, it has no external logic at all. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

...aren’t all our tears really for ourselves anyway? When we cry with joy at weddings, aren’t we really sad that such happiness belongs to someone else? All our emotions, even the generous ones, even empathy, are really just a way of bringing the woes of the world closer to home. It’s all one big opportunity to feel, to feel more. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am, at heart, still an addict, and for people like us, the thrill is always gone. It’s leaving before it has even arrived. Every time my dealer dropped off my fix of cocaine, I was already trying to figure out when he would bring more – and this was before I’d even gotten started on what was there. And pretty soon it becomes a way of life: there are no moments of joy, because you are always anticipating when the next possible moments of joy might arrive. As soon as tomorrow? As late as next year? Maybe in a week or two? Not that it matters, because you would not enjoy that joy either, you’d be too busy wondering where the next fix of fun would come from. Addiction is, in its essence, an inability to live in the moment. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

I need to start thinking more like an engineer and less like a scientist: I need to think about what works, not about why. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

...I came to believe that taking drugs was a symptom of my depression, but I never quite understood that it had become a problem itself. I believed I had gotten addicted to drugs, but I did not believe that I was an addict. Hence, I felt that if I cured the addiction, I could use again. I did not understand that it was the addict herself that needed to be cured. I had come to separate my behavior from my essential self, even though I believe that you are what you do. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

...Aristotle taught that happiness was deeds, not emotions. And I always liked that. I always liked the idea that if you made certain choices and lived a certain way you would be happy – happiness is not a state, it’s an activity. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

After a while, the alternative me really was just me. Those days that I tried to be the little girl I was supposed to be drained me. I went home at night and cried for hours because so many people in my life expecting me to be a certain way was just too much pressure, as if I'd been held against a wall and interrogated for hours, asked questions I couldn't quite answer any longer. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

I did not, you see, want to kill myself. Not at that time anyway. But I wanted to know that, if need be, if the desperation got so terribly bad, I could inflict harm on my body. Knowing this gave me a sense of peace and power. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can’t be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good? -Elizabeth Wurtzel

I start to think that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a 'handle with care' sign stuck to my forehead. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together - the Lithium, the Prozac, the Desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night - can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead. The actual dying part, the withering away of my physical body, was a mere formality. My spirit, my emotional being whatever you want to call all that inner turmoil that has nothing to do with physical existence, were long gone, dead and gone, and only a mass of the most fucking god-awful excruciating pain like a pair of boiling hot tongs clamped tight around my spine and pressing on all my nerves was left in it's wake. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

And I'm starting to wonder if I might not be one of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath who are just better off dead, who may live in that bare, minimal sort of way for a certain number of years, may even marry, have kids, create an artistic legacy of sorts, may even be beautiful and enchanting at moments, as both of them supposedly were. But in the end, none of the good was any match for the aching, enduring, suicidal pain. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

But depression is not a sudden disaster. It is more like a cancer At first its tumorous mass is not even noticeable to the careful eye, and then one day - wham! - there is a huge, deadly seven-pound lump lodged in your brain or your stomach or your shoulder blade, and this thing that your own body has produced is actually trying to kill you. Depression is a lot like that: Slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into our systems making life feel more and more unbearable. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression is in an all together different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space. But for all intents and purposes, the deeply depressed are just he walking, waking dead. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind? -Elizabeth Wurtzel

The grief comes like winters cold, cutting breath. I want to turn the sun and the moon from their paths and press the countless stars in my fist. I shall curse this world. Turn back the sun. Turn back the moon. I shall curse this world. Turn back the day. Turn back the night. And when I have trampled it all underfoot, smiling I'll turn my back on life. -Wyrd

The drugs don't work anymore, immune to all the pills. Too afraid to sleep, too tired to live. Can't sleep, the visions haunt me. Should I close my eyes? Would I dare dream? My last sanctuary now twisted into a morbid nightmare without an end. The fever's getting higher, burning inside me like fire. The shadows are getting deeper. Oh dawn, why won't you come? Tired of being alive, of thinking, of breathing. So why not just end it? Right here, right now. The sickness burns in my veins, working like a daze yet I am too scared to end my days. -Wyrd

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. -William Butler Yeats

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. -Henny Youngman

Be as a cup, and the universe flows into you. Be as an arrow, and the universe retreats from you. -Zen Proverb