Morton Feldman Quotes

Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.

I try to focus on using my energy to change things, but there are times when I feel so bad.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself.

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.