Temple Grandin Quotes

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

I'm kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I'm all of those things at once.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.

Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'

They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.

We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.

My life has had a lot of fun moments, but I tend to feel sadness more often.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

Happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. It pops into your life unbidden, and then tends to pop out again. I'm on record as being depressive. It is related to winter.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.