Jonathan Davis Quotes

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

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'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.

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.

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.

I don't like the feeling of being unhappy. I don't like the feeling of being unsure about myself, or uncertain with where something's going - I would rather turn away. I just can't feel like that ever again. It's just horrible.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

People might look great on the outside but they all have something that they're dealing with.