E. B. White Quotes

Despair has its own calms.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Hell is in the here and now. So is Heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside us this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I kind of like being depressed.

I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.