A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.