Michael Palin Quotes

We all go through different mood changes. I'm just a person; I've got all those emotions going like everybody else, and sometimes it gets the better of you.

I'm going to have my moody times.

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.

My life has had a lot of fun moments, but I tend to feel sadness more often.

I have good days and bad days.

As any human does, I have my happy times and sad times.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I'm not the best company and am best left alone. But I'm not nearly as bad as people like to make out.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.

Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.