Harry Stack Sullivan Quotes

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

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 guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.

Human beings are interested in the human condition.

We are all human beings. We all go through a lot at certain times of our lives.

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.

Nobody can be happy all the time, and if you aim to be, ultimately you will never be happy.

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Sometimes I am very pleased with lifestyle and sometimes I feel utterly worthless because I have so few interests.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.