Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

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.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

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

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.

I think people with anxiety do different things during different years, and for me, I waded through my anxiety during the last two years with men, and flirting, and dating, and this thing and that thing, and so that's going to stop, and that has stopped.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

I'm very emotional and vulnerable.