Eric Berry Quotes

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.

I struggle every day to hold on to what little hope I can find.

Anxiety is a trap; it's not a trend to be followed. It's not supposed to be cool, it's meant to be fixed.

I have had anxiety literally my whole life.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

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