Sue Townsend Quotes

I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

While making "Possessed", I wept each morning on my drive to the studio, and I wept all the way back home. I found it impossible to sleep at night, so I'd lie in bed contemplating the future. I fear it with all my heart and soul even as I fear the dark.

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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

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

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.

Depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.

All depression is fear-based.

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.