Rube Goldberg Quotes

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

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

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

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

If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

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.

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

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

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

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.