Mekhi Phifer Quotes

Despair often breeds disease.

The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

I never have anything go wrong. Never have a backache. Never have a headache. Never have anything else.

I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

Anyone can have depression. The illness doesn't care how much you do or don't have.

I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.

For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

I'm much more prone to feeling down a lot. I just feel sluggish and unmotivated.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.