Phil Elverum Quotes

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

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

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

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

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.

In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

Feeling alone while you're going through something actually exacerbates the symptoms of it.

All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.

I'm not a tortured soul.

People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and others like to keep it separate from business and commerce. It's perfectly fine to say, 'I actually don't want to talk about my love because that's not part of the fantasy world I created in commerce.'

I try to focus on using my energy to change things, but there are times when I feel so bad.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'

With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.