Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

I thought I was depressed because I wasn't a writer/director. I moved into a space where I'm a writer/director, my movie is a hit at Sundance, I have a wonderful, loving boyfriend, and wow, I have financial stability. Why can't I get out of bed still?

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.

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

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

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

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

Living, it's awful for me.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.