John Rzeznik Quotes

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

The hardest thing in the world is to watch someone you love really not be able to get themselves together and really struggle on a level so bad when it seems and it appears that they have it all.

Sometimes I'm not into being a human.

The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

I drink to forget I drink.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

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

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

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

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.