Mental Darkness Quotes

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.

I'm hugely negative, so if a joke doesn't land it takes me a long time to get over it. If something doesn't go well I go dark in my head. Basically I start thinking it should be illegal for me to be doing comedy.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

Black illusion is all I ever see.

O ye gods! what thick encircling darkness blinds the minds of men!

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.

Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

I am not embarrassed to say that when I was at my worst I took anti-depressants because I think people need to hear that. I think if you are in a dark place where you can't pull yourself out, you may need to ask for help.

They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

There are different levels of depression - when I got low, I got really, really low.