Troy D. McElroy > Troy's Quotes

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Sometimes someone will be standing in front of me, and already I feel him walking away. It's only a matter of time, so what's the point?”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

“I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

“Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“He was rambling. But, oddly, his mind felt clearer now than it had in weeks. Perhaps it was the clarity of perspective. Most men spent their entire lives wondering about the future. Well, his future was empty now.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“And underneath it all, there remained an ever-present anger and hurt, the feeling of belonging nowhere that comes to people who belong everywhere. It”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“When you shatter the chains of this world and forge the next, remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“If I have to feel better than you to feel good about myself, then how clearly am I really going to see you, or myself for that matter?”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself