Groucho Marx Quotes

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

There are such wonderful blessings in my life - I have this amazing baby, an amazing family, and I loved X Factor - all these moments of joy, and then these sharp drop-offs. I'd be awake, lying in bed, crying. There's these weird moments of misplaced anger I have.

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Contrary to reports that I took the loss badly, I want to say that I went home last night and slept like a baby—every two hours I woke up and cried.

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

I try to focus on using my energy to change things, but there are times when I feel so bad.

I've got to deal with some stuff in my mind that's pretty scary.

It's a daily struggle for me to stay alive. I don't mean to be melodramatic, hyperbolic, or go into my broadcast mode. But even that, my career is bipolar.

For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.