William Saroyan Quotes

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.