Patricia Polacco Quotes

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.