Jean Paul Quotes

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

I've been reduced to drag.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Sometimes, I cry because I'm sad, and sometimes, I cry just because it's just emotional and it's super awesome.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

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.

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.

I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.