Rosa Parks Quotes

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Anyone who commits an act of violence to themselves or others is worth consideration in the sense that there must be something that brought them to that point, whether it's a mental health issue or otherwise.

Some days, I didn't know how I was going to make it to the next morning.

Stress is a form of suffering.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never happend before. I couldn't cope. It was heartbreak time. I thought it was the end of the world.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

Living, it's awful for me.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.

Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.