Randy Pausch Quotes

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

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

I don't have time to be depressed.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

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

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

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.

I'm going to have my moody times.

I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I get frustrated but never depressed.

I'm not Mr. Brooding.

You would think I'm mad or depressed all the time, but that's not the case at all.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want.

I don't get depressed.

So I'm not naturally happy all the time, all upbeat. People that know me will tell you that.