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Your Voice in My Head QUOTES

Your Voice in My Head QUOTES

1 " In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

2 " When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

3 " If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

4 " I never lie ― I am a blatantly truthful person about almost everything. My addiction (or disease as some call it) always lies. I have had very good relationships, but the addict in me always fucked them up. I fall in love quickly, it's a high that rivals drugs for a while. I am monogamous, but I always cheated with depression before the relationship fell apart. Addicts need best friends, healthy people need healthy relationships. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

5 " It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

6 " I'm not crazy or dangerous,
just a bit eccentric and lonely. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

7 " When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

8 " What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die. When you don't have so much control over your own thoughts, over the myriad voices in your head,
you don't know where they could go. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

9 " I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

10 " But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

11 " It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

12 " In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And . . . that's it, I think. "

― Emma Forrest, , Your Voice in My Head

13 " Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

14 " No one ever loved you like him.
And no one ever took it away so completely.
But it's here.
Look around. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

15 " There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into
something better, something more beautiful. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

16 " Of course he freaked me out.
Of course it's nothing to do with me.
But none of that matters.
He loved me and now he doesn't.
I was everything to him and now I am nothing. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

17 " Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone.
And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him.
The shame is overwhelming. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

18 " People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

19 " It's only a heartache. It isn't a tragedy. A tragedy would be losing the father of my children to cancer. This I wrestle with the hardest. There are thirty-one flavors of pain, like Baskin Robbins in hell. Am I allowed to feel pain at a breakup? When there is so much other shit going on in this world? Love is extremely serious. I don't think this is trivial. "

― , Your Voice in My Head

20 " When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes,
I think he knew what he would do,
what he would have to do,
and he was mourning us.
He was mourning us the whole time. "

― Emma Forrest, , Your Voice in My Head