Paul Simon Quotes

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

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

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

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.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

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

If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.

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.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.