Marc Maron Quotes

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

I'm working myself to death.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

Honestly, I really just think I work too hard to feel any pressure.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Life is stressful.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

I am tired of hustling.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

… a job of infinite stress