Jennifer Armintrout Quotes

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

My sex life has gone from bad to pathetic. My G spot stands for godforsaken.

She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Oh, that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head?

Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really I don't want to watch other people doing it. I get embarrassed.

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.