Anne Sexton Quotes

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

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.

Somebody asked me at one stage, 'Are you depressed?' And I said, 'Are you kidding me? I'm not depressed.' But you know what? I was. I was, but I just didn't realize it, because all these things happen, and you just don't know how to deal with emotions.

I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.

Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.

Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.

I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

I have some anger issues.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.

I've always had this term 'mad season' in my head.

We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

At least you know that you're crazy. That means you have the potential to recover.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.