Audrey Hepburn Quotes

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

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.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

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

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?

Worry is a form of fear.

Worry means tormenting yourself with disturbing thoughts or fretting about things we have zero control over. If you live in the north there is no need to worry about the snow. You will get plenty each year. If you live in California or Texas you needn't worry about rain because we won't receive any.

You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in the depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I was an emotional basket case.

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