Daniel Handler Quotes

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.

The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so the violin was always the one constant I had. I always feel better when I had my violin. Playing it is cathartic.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

It's really important for me that the people who listen to my music get something that can hopefully help them get through whatever they're going through. Music is the only thing that's able to help sooth my soul in that way, and my goal is to always put things out there that that do the same thing for other people.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.