John Grant Quotes

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

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

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

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

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

There are times when I think, 'Do I have the energy to be upset?' and the answer is 'no.'

Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier as it is that I can be unhappy in better ways.