Larry David Quotes

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

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.

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

I'm not very good at talking about my emotions.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.

I took the decision that everything I would post would be positive. If you say, 'Ahh, I feel terrible today,' and you spread that to the eyes and ears of millions of people, that's not good.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

I've always written down how I feel.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

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

I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

I have caught my reflection and thought, 'Oof. That girl is struggling. That girl is tired.' I've had mornings where I'm like, 'Oh God, I have weird hair.'

All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.