39 quotes found
“That's worst than gonerreha, man!”
“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”
“When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.”
“Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”
“I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me.”
“I'll fail.""At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.”
“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you ...”
“It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.""And what is that nightmare, Craig?""Life.”
“We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.”
“I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.”
“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”
“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”
“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 ...”
“I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here.""Is there something wrong with that?""Absolutely.”
“Im not better, you know. The weight hasnt left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out...”
“(...) Since I was a kid.""Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'""Right.”
“What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I dont know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a bri...”
“You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?""Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's wha...”
“I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.”
“This was all an excuse, I think. I was doing fine. I had a 93 average and I was holding my head above water. I had good friends and a loving family. And because I needed to be the center of attenti...”
“I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what ...”
“Its a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesnt want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.”
“I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it...”
