Alice Hoffman Quotes

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Sadness isn't a natural response.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

Despair is a natural emotion.

There are worse things than being mad.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

When you grow up around sadness, it affects the way you see the world.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

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

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

No one is happy all his life long.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

I cry all the time.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.