Phil Anselmo Quotes

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

For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.

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.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

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

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

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

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

I really wish I worried less.

I never thought I'd be somebody dealing with anxiety or depression.

There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.

Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.

I suffer anxiety and a lot of insecurities, depression and stuff.

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

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

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.