Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself – if they could live in my memories – would anyone, anyone, love me?
Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.
Human life must be some form of mistake.
You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.
I prefer to cry alone. Pride? No. I just want to avoid the judgement of people who don’t know the reason for my tears.
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.
I don’t want to die. But I want to be dead.
Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.
It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.
No one can hate me more than I hate myself.
I’ve tried so hard and got so far but in the end, it doesn’t even matter.
It is hard to be happy without a life worth living. This is a fundamental tenet of DBT. Of course, all lives are worth living in reality. No life is not worth living. But what is important is that you experience your life as worth living – one that is satisfying, and one that brings happiness.