Tom Robbins Quotes

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

Self-pity shortens your life.

I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

Being down makes you think who you are.

There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

self-pity is better than none.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.