Alan Watts Quotes

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

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.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.

As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety... Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

You're the only one that's in control of your emotions; you're the only one that's inside of you at all times. So control you however you want to. If you're not happy, that's your fault.

You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.