Amanda Knox Quotes

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I'm always dealing with this sadness. I don't want to be Morrissey or anything, but it is a thing I deal with it. Every day, when I wake up, I have to make a decision to fight this depression. That sounds horrible but I'm fine with it; it's who I am; it's my life. I try not to let it cripple me.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

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.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

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

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

We all have our inner demons.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.