The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.
I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.
I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.
I drink to feel / I smoke to breathe / Just look what love / Has done to me
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.
Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.
