Ali Wong Quotes

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

I've had success, but I'm still haunted by the fear of being hungry. Once you've lived it it never leaves you.

Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.

When people get scared, they quit giving.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I'm a hoarder.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

And plenty makes us poor.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

I remember back in the days my Mom didn't have enough for Thanksgiving.

When I was at United, I had money, but I was still so down and depressed.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.