Tasha Smith Quotes

From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

I am a victim of introspection.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

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?

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb...

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.