Phil Elverum Quotes

I'll let myself obsess over things.

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

I'm afraid of me.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

I don't even agree with myself at times.

Every so often, I'll look at myself in the mirror and go, 'You're a bad mother,' you know? Like, 'You're a bad dude, man, and you're gonna show the world who you are when the time is right.'

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

Fear is the fear of one's self.

Don't believe the things you tell yourself late at night.