Emo Philips Quotes

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

As a comic and as a nurse, it's important to look calm on the surface when you're absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it's important to make that person feel that you're in control.

I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.

Some people just don't have the tools to deal with the stuff life throws at them.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

I don't cry unless it's personal.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.