Kage Baker Quotes

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.

I don't know how to be happy - They didn't teach it in my school

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

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

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

Everybody has unhappiness.

I was depressed for a long time.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.