Jenny Downham Quotes

It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.