Margaret Walker Quotes

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

Depression is rage spread thin.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

I started having anxiety attacks and panic attacks. I would cry myself to sleep every night and wish I could go back in time and get my life back and be a human again instead of a photo op.

Resentment creates stress.

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

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.

Living, it's awful for me.

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

I suffer from everyday life.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.