Hannah Blum Quotes

My story is not a sad story; it's a real one. It's a story about a girl who fought through a storm she thought would never end.

It's feeling full of everything and empty of it all at the same time. This is mental illness.

If you want to see the stars, you must be willing to travel through the dark.

You may not understand my mind, but that does not give you the right to judge it.

Healing isn't about overcoming the pain; it's living despite it.

Sometimes I am high; sometimes I am low, but I love myself even when I hate myself.

On her dark days, she screamed. On her bright days, she laughed, There was no in between, but every day she felt.

Mental illness may be invisible, but the people who live with it are not.

Beautiful soul, do not give up. What we believe to be the end is usually just the beginning.

The light you are searching for can be found in your reflection.

The mental health problem is not just a health crisis; it's a social injustice. It's the mistreatment of the misunderstood.

When you live with depression, anxiety, or any mental illness, you spend most of your time "trying to explain" yourself over taking care of yourself.

They told me to pursue acting, and I replied, "I live with mental illness. I've been an actress my whole life.

If they think you are too much; maybe it's because they are not enough.

To love me, you must accept me as I am. You must love the parts of me you do not understand.

Just like a flower blooms from the ground, so do we.

Breaking and rebuilding happen simultaneously. So when you are crumbling, remember it's from the bottom we rise again.

That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment of their inmates, was all the more characteristic as the selection of the groups was left exclusively to the initiative of the totalitarian regimes: if the Nazis put a person in a concentration camp and if he made a successful escape, say, to Holland, the Dutch would put him in an internment camp. Thus, long before the outbreak of the war the police in a number of Western countries, under the pretext of "national security," had on their own initiative established close connections with the Gestapo and the GPU [Russian State security agency], so that one might say there existed an independent foreign policy of the police. This police-directed foreign policy functioned quite independently of the official governments; the relations between the Gestapo and the French police were never more cordial than at the time of Leon Blum's popular-front government, which was guided by a decidedly anti-German policy. Contrary to the governments, the various police organizations were never overburdened with "prejudices" against any totalitarian regime; the information and denunciations received from GPU agents were just as welcome to them as those from Fascist or Gestapo agents. They knew about the eminent role of the police apparatus in all totalitarian regimes, they knew about its elevated social status and political importance, and they never bothered to conceal their sympathies. That the Nazis eventually met with so disgracefully little resistance from the police in the countries they occupied, and that they were able to organize terror as much as they did with the assistance of these local police forces, was due at least in part to the powerful position which the police had achieved over the years in their unrestricted and arbitrary domination of stateless and refugees.

Thus, long before the outbreak of the war the police in a number of Western countries, under the pretext of “national security,” had on their own initiative established close connections with the Gestapo and the GPU, so that one might say there existed an independent foreign policy of the police. This police-directed foreign policy functioned quite independently of the official governments; the relations between the Gestapo and the French police were never more cordial than at the time of Leon Blum’s popular-front government, which was guided by a decidedly anti-German policy. Contrary to the governments, the various police organizations were never overburdened with “prejudices” against any totalitarian regime; the information and denunciations received from GPU agents were just as welcome to them as those from Fascist or Gestapo agents. They knew about the eminent role of the police apparatus in all totalitarian regimes, they knew about its elevated social status and political importance, and they never bothered to conceal their sympathies. That the Nazis eventually met with so disgracefully little resistance from the police in the countries they occupied, and that they were able to organize terror as much as they did with the assistance of these local police forces, was due at least in part to the powerful position which the police had achieved over the years in their unrestricted and arbitrary domination of stateless and refugees.

Be vibrant and unique in a way that makes you feel alive. Share your truth and find the people who will love you for it. The people who are there for you whether you are dancing or shattering, smiling or crumbling[...]