Arthur Golden Quotes

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

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.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Such persons are windows through which one looks into terrible worlds.

No one alive is more tormented nor weaker than myself.

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

My soul is a broken field, plowed by pain.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

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