Emile Durkheim Quotes

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... it's what I feel like.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

To think is to be sick.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

Every thought you have affects everything in your body.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.