Norman Cousins Quotes

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

I have some anger issues.

I was an emotional basket case.

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

I kind of like being depressed.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

I get stressed out really easily.

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

I am a melancholy type of person.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.

I get frustrated but never depressed.

I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.