Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

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

Fear usually looks like anger.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

I've been reduced to drag.

When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.

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

I have a suicide impulse.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.

I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

Unhappiness was my god.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.

That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.