Doug Stanhope Quotes

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

I've met a ton of new people who have colitis or Crohn's. Talking to them has been probably the most healing thing: to hear other people's attitudes on how they deal with their disease and how they stay positive.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up.

Anybody who has cancer, they take it one day at a time.

In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The old strategy of suffering in silence could not have been more misguided.

So I had an operation. So what? If I die, I die. I'm more interested in my music.

I feel better now after two children - I think I look better; I feel better.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.

Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?

There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.