Kate Millett Quotes

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

Depression can take you into a black hole, so it is terrible.

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.

I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens—chained naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

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

Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

I am a broken person.

Anyone who commits an act of violence to themselves or others is worth consideration in the sense that there must be something that brought them to that point, whether it's a mental health issue or otherwise.

I never abused anybody but myself.

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

I went through an extreme depression.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

For some people, it is easier to command a nation, to send thousands to their deaths in unnecessary wars, to separate children from their families and inflict terrible suffering, than to process their own trauma and pain.

I'm broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn't beat it.

The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.