Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.

We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

When I'm in a bad mood, I feel better listening to someone else who sounds like they're in a bad mood. That was especially true when I was a kid, and I was mad at my mom or dad for whatever reason.

People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.

Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?" "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.