Edwidge Danticat Quotes

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I get depressed at airports.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

We're all confused and have problems and struggles.

I just don't know where my head is sometimes.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.