Hanif Kureishi Quotes

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

There's a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering from some sort of traumatic experience, a loss, depressed, fearful, envious or whatever the case may be, but I can feel it.

It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.

Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.

I can't get my wrists to bleed, just don't know why suicide appeals to me.

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain and suffering, and finally got help. I feel so much better now, feel like a new person, so now I can be happy about it.

I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.