Chris Gethard Quotes

Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

I spent 24 years in the closet wanting to talk so desperately about who I was and what I am but too afraid to.

Many feel the need to hide their problems from their school friends, work colleagues and even members of their own family.

Part of the reason people don't talk about their loneliness is that they feel they will be judged for it.

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

When I was outed, it was like, That's done.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.

I didn't want to be the daughter of the crazy people.

I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims.

No one should ever suffer in silence. Bullies thrive in silence.

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

That's the thing about abuse - it can make the victim feel an overwhelming sense of shame, a shame so disabling that one suffers in silence.

Growing up, I felt like I couldn't talk about certain things until I had the outlets to do so. Once you're able to be honest and say things as they are, it removes this crazy stigma and fear around it.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

I was ostracized by my community.