Italo Calvino Quotes

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Living, it's awful for me.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

Some days, I didn't know how I was going to make it to the next morning.

I'm acutely aware of my anxiety.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

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

I was an emotional basket case.

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

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.

... too emotionally strung out.

I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.