Ned Vizzini Quotes

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.

I suffer anxiety and a lot of insecurities, depression and stuff.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

It's getting harder just to feel alive.

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.

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

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.