FAHED SHEIKH > FAHED's Quotes

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
― Charles Bukowski

“I will be stronger than my sadness.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“لم أهزم الاكتئاب لأننى طبيب نفسى أعرف بوادره مبكرا فأهاجمه قبل أن يهاجمنى، لكن لأننى صرت أبا وصار الاكتئاب ترفا وخيانة لبهاء الأبوة.”
― محمد المخزنجي

“أكره مرض الاكتئاب بنفس القدر الذي أحب به مريض الاكتئاب .. فهو أرق الناس وأصفاهم وأصدقهم”
― عادل صادق, حكايات نفسية

“يقولون: إن المرض الوحيد الذي يصحو فيه المريض مرهقاًبعد نوم تسع ساعات كاملة هو الاكتئاب ..كل الأمراض الأخرى - بما فيها الدرن والسرطان - يصحو مريضها من التوم أفضل حالاً..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“خط الرجعة الأخير ضد الاكتئاب والقلق واضطرابات الشخصية، في وجود كل أنواع الأدوية والعقاقير، هو علاقة إنسانية يوصلك فيها إنك من حقك تكون نفسك.. من غير ما تدفع أى تمن”
― د. محمد طه, علاقات خطرة

“أحيانًا يغرق الشخص في مشاكل الآخرين بصورة تورثه هو شخصيًا الاكتئاب وعندها يصبح غير فادر على مساعدة نفسه أو غيره”
― Dina Said, من أوروبا البلد

“إن الاكتئاب يمكن أن يكون فرصة ذهبية تمنحنا إياها الحياة لنواجه مباشرة قضايا بالغة الأهمية على قلوبنا،بيد أننا غضضنا الطرف عنها إما عن جهل او عجالة .”
― أليف شافاك, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within

“Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.”
― Joe Biden

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss