Rebecca Hall Quotes

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

I'm still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

I had low self-esteem.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I don't know if I'm 'normal.'

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.