Dave Sitek Quotes

To have a natural, healthy glow, you need to spend as much time as you can outside - if you stay locked up in an office, it can take a toll on your mind and body.

I know it's a cliche, but the sun makes me happy. When you can feel the sunshine on you, you feel better, happier, and naturally, every human being needs the sun.

I like having a lot of sunlight because it helps me wake up. And I don't get depressed in winter.

I have to get at least 20 minutes of sun every day. An hour is the best because it's good for you. You need it. I need it to have that little spark.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people living in the northern hemisphere, however, suffer from lower levels of vitamin D during the fall, winter and spring.

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

Being outside and being in the sun is great for me.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

People blame themselves for their own layoffs…. We ignore the effect on mental health. Every person in this society who is laid off is told that they lack value…. We undermine public health.

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

When you've got society calling you a burden and talking about how much money you're costing the state, it's bound to impact negatively on your mental health.

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

I'm not saying it's safe to go sit out in the sun all day but I don't believe that sun is bad for you.

If there's no sun, I go batshit crazy.

External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.