Walker Percy Quotes

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

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.

If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.

Players are sometimes sad, sometimes happy during their sporting career.

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.

To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed.

When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

Unhappy is a nice word.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

Today, we celebrate happiness. Happiness is supposed to make us better workers and parents and partners; it's supposed to make us live longer. In the 16th century, sadness was thought to do most of those things. It's possible to read self-help books from that period which try to encourage sadness in readers by giving them lists of reasons to be disappointed. These self-help authors thought you could cultivate sadness as a skill, since being expert in it would make you more resilient when something bad did happen to you, as invariably it would. I think we could learn from this today. Feel sad today, and you might feel impatient, even a little ashamed. Feel sad in the 16th century, and you might feel a little bit smug.

Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.

Nothing always stays the same. You don't stay happy forever. You don't stay sad forever.

Love songs too have many moods. It can be sad or be joyous and upbeat when one feels jubilant and in love.

If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.

One thing about me is that I don't like to be sad all the time.