Isma'il Quotes

I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

I am a broken person.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.

Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

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.

I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.