Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

I meditate on a regular basis and reap benefits from this practice

Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.

But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.

Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

If I seem to be reckless with myself,It's the fault of no one.All things have a placeUnder the moon as well as the sun.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

By the mid-'80s, it was really apparent to me that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.