Yann Martel Quotes

Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life, they just don't have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I'm lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself. Now I love me, so I'm OK.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.

I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

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

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I was a happy-go-lucky gothic girl who had an optimistic spirit cos I was suffering a lot at home.

I know from experience that one of the first things to drop off during great transitions, such as dealing with grief or loss, is taking care of our bodies.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

The insanity has to stop...It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show up in our relationships and at work, our sense of our worth, value, and potential as human beings. Join in-and help change-the Conversation.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

...we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.