Sara Zarr Quotes

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

Why do you need to fly so much?” she asked. “If I don’t, it’ll catch up with me.” The words just came out. “What will?” I took my hands from my face, panting. I stared out at the storm. “Unhappiness.

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

It's sort of my job to feel good.

When people feel good, they look good.

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

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

If I feel really ugly or unhappy, sometimes I'll choose bright colors so they'll make me feel good. Yellows, pinks, light blues and orange. I just want to feel good all the time if I can. And colors and hairstyles and all that kind of helps out.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.