Nicola Griffith Quotes

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

When I can't write, it depresses me.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

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

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

I have a lot of bad days.

There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I'll be fine, and suddenly I'll feel the depression coming on. It can start with the smallest thing.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

In 2013, I went through a really great depression.

I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

I would cry all of the time and I didn't know why! I was having shows and after the show I would go to the room, order a big hamburger and a vanilla shake or something like that... and cry because I was so depressed... I think it was because I was too tired.

Anxiety has been a big problem for me, but I think my biggest struggle has been depression.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.