Phoebe Bridgers Quotes

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

Living, it's awful for me.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

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

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

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

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.