Carol Ann Duffy Quotes

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

One day you are up, the next down, and I have to remain calm, work, help, and learn; that is the most important.

When I was a teenager, I battled some severe depression.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

I know from experience that one of the first things to drop off during great transitions, such as dealing with grief or loss, is taking care of our bodies.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again