Adam Johnson Quotes

She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

I was an emotional basket case.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Unhappiness was my god.

I'm in a glass case of emotion

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you're in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

I think I am mad sometimes.

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.