Bernie Siegel Quotes

She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

I've always internalized things.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

Even with me, there are so many things I have bottled up.

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

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.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

I don't think you're human unless you go through some [self-destructi on].

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

When we run from our feelings, they follow us. Everywhere.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes it's hard to turn it back on again.

She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.