Terry McMillan Quotes

I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

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

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don't see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.

I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?

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

Life for me in Los Angeles required medication. I spent nine years being sad and down in the dumps. L.A. doesn't work with my chemistry.