Lady Victoria Leatham quotes

“But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?”
-- Lady Victoria Leatham

#Depression Quotes #Mind Quotes #Able Quotes

“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.”

“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”

“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”

“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”

“I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.”

“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”

“But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.”

“Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.”