Lauren DeStefano Quotes

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

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 had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

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.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

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

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine. You get to a point where you say, 'I will not take it anymore! I'm gonna do something drastic if I stay this depressed. I've got to break out of there!'