Patch Adams Quotes

So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed.

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness.

The unhappy never want enemies.

Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending.

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.

Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

I am wrapped in dismal thinking.

Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I don't really know what depression is, I don't think I've felt it. I probably have. Things aren't the same when you're losing. You're not happy. That can happen. But I try to keep them separate as much as possible.

Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.