“If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.”
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
“When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.”
“I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.”
“You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.”
“My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.”From “The Education of Robert Nifkin”