Scott Westerfeld Quotes

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.

As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

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.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

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

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.

Even with the most horrendous things that happen and the tremendous pain that people have to deal with, they still laugh, because I think that's what it means to be human.

Divorce is one of the most destructive, emotionally traumatic experiences a human being can go through, no matter if you're the instigator or the recipient. It's hard, and it hurts, and it takes a long time to feel normal again.