Will Smith Quotes

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I'm not a tortured soul.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.

We're never gonna survive unless we go a little crazy.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think I'll ever have the day-to-day consistency in my performance that something like This American Life has. If I'm not depressed and I'm on and I can focus and I can think through something hard and without interruption and without existential emptiness that comes from depression, that gives me - not mania. But I exalt. I exalt in not being depressed.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.