Hayley Williams Quotes

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.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.