Phil Anselmo Quotes

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.

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.

When it got to the diagnosis of my knee and when I realised how long I was going to be out, my thoughts spiralled out of control.

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.