Lupe Fiasco Quotes

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

When I was in Portland, there were some dark times for me.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.

We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

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

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.