Lydia Lunch Quotes

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

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

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

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

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.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

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

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

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.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

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

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