Anthony Hopkins Quotes

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. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Depression starts slow.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.

I kind of like being depressed.

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

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

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.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

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

I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

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.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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.