Billy Connolly Quotes

I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.

You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

I react emotionally to everything!

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.

I'm a crier. You won't see me lashing out, but you will see me crying a lot.

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama.