Matthieu Ricard Quotes

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

I get depressed when things are not right.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

Living, it's awful for me.

Everybody has unhappiness.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I have a lot of bad days.

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

I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.

I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

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

I don't know if this is the same for everybody, but for me, sometimes I get depressed, where I wake up and I can feel a change. Something went wrong, and it's almost like you feel tingly in a way where you know something is off, and from that point forward, this anxiety kicks in where you just worry and worry... this cyclical, terrible nature.

I was always very depressed, even when I was a youngster.

I can't deal with waking up and being sad.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.