Francois Fenelon Quotes

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.'

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Some teachers feel that if they ask for emotional help, they're a failure. But teaching is a team sport.