Judith Guest Quotes

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else, either.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Make notes"”I've lost more material than I've ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not still up there in one's brain. It's in outer space and it ain't coming back.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.